Challenging My Self-Imposed Boundaries

I have come to realize over the past couple of days that I have a lot of limiting beliefs. I tell myself, not purposefully that “I can’t” or “I don’t have the talent” or “I’m not good enough to …”
I’ve never really realized how much that impacted me and what I feel I can do.
Yesterday [...]

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Creating a Chalice: Part 2: Exploring My Creativity

I do not consider myself an artistic person. I create things from fibers using other people’s patterns. I am a musician, but I play the music that other people have written. I write code, but considering that an art is a big stretch.
So I signed up to take the “Create Your Own Chalice” workshop. We [...]

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Creating a Chalice: Part 1: History

On Monday afternoon, within the not-so-quiet confines of SUUSI, I took a workshop in creating a chalice. I’m going to bet that 99% of the people reading this are unfamiliar with Unitarian-Universalism, so I am going to give a brief history of the symbol and why it was chosen.
The origin of the flaming chalice as [...]

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Walking the Labyrinth

This morning I took a short course in meditation by walking the labyrinth. I had been aware that labyrinths were incorporated as part of most European cathedrals, but never understood the usage for meditation. (For more information on this, see this book, and the floor plan of the Chartre labyrinth)
The class met in the basement [...]

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Mindfullness

Far too often in my life, I am thinking of, or doing, other things when I am supposed to be focusing elsewhere. I know I’m not the only one, because who among us have not seen someone driving and talking on the phone? But it creeps into all sorts of places in my life. Far [...]

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Enter, Rejoice and Renew

This week I am in western Virginia attending a conference. This conference, Southern Unitarian-Universalist Summer Institute, (also known as SUUSI) is focused on the theme of “Rejoice and Renew”.
This is the first time we have attended this conference, and members of our home congregation were extremely happy to have us join in. Both my partner [...]

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All Quiet on the Eastern Front

I’ve been very quiet with blogging lately. Partly it has been because of an overwhelming amount of work that has caused me to just want to vegetate when I get home at night. And partly because I have been taking a look at my blogs and reaffirming my commitment to what I want to do.
I [...]

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Quotation: Thoman Mann

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- Thomas Mann

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The Power of Color

I have recently taken a hiatus from writing blogs to try and get a handle on what I was doing in my life. I’ve been captivated by a couple of books on voluntary simplicity, and I’m sure my pursuit of this will be documented here.
Recently I decided I couldn’t stand my home office any longer. [...]

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