Please note: "trigger warning". “Art is a wound, turned into light.” ~ Georges Braque For me, the process of writing and making art is what turns wounds into light. Many of my poems and art pieces are NOT about healing, but the process of creating is healing for me no...
Rock Solid: Meditations on Stone
I hold a rock from Second Beach (La Push, WA, Olympic National Park, land of the Quileute).It is black, heavy; feels dense. Pyramid shaped, it has a smooth-ish surface. Barnacles on the surface mark this as a sea stone. I have always picked up rocks. And I have often wondered how...
How far is your reach?
When I went to my first International Women’s Writing Guild Conference in 1997, I went to Jan Phillips’ workshop. She posed a series of questions, including “How far is your reach?”.