Stories for and about those who recharge in solitude and feel life deeply.

A Room of One's Own

By |2015-09-22T16:07:21-05:00July 8th, 2011|Categories: Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Popular Posts, Relationships, Spacious Artists|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

  “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”                                                                        ~ Virginia Woolf   I am operating on less than four hours of sleep and less than six hours of me time for the whole week.  I feel edgy and my skin crawls from lack of recovery [...]

Spirit of Summer

By |2015-09-22T16:07:21-05:00July 1st, 2011|Categories: Introverts and Highly Sensitive People|Tags: , , |

   Summer seems a time of brevity, levity and love. My heart and intellect could not stand an outpouring of researched writing this week so something different… a poem; in this case, liquid words of summer sentiment.  Enjoy the beauty and life-filled images of the season. :)    Love Past loves swarm and circle-buzz the air: The [...]

Turkeys Vs. Target: Space Vs. Convenience

By |2015-09-22T16:07:22-05:00June 10th, 2011|Categories: Introverts and Highly Sensitive People|Tags: , , , , , , |

Did you look both ways??? Where I live used to be a turkey farm. I can’t remember who told me that, but the trivia made it to long-term memory because the name of the turkey homestead was Elwell Farm.  Coincidentally, I grew up in a country village (too small to be a suburb) in [...]

An Introvert Prepares for Summer Parenting

By |2017-05-31T11:26:43-05:00June 3rd, 2011|Categories: Emotions and Energy, Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Parenting|Tags: , , , , , |

It’s midnight and my eleven year old son, Bryce, and I are camping out on my dad’s property.  It’s not ideal camping weather.  There’s a chance of a storm and the thermometer hovers around 45 degrees. The plump air mattress under our two-man tent uses up a precious four inches of floor to ceiling space.  Bryce [...]

Soul Painting: Beyond Artistic Talent

By |2016-03-07T15:37:05-06:00May 27th, 2011|Categories: Emotions and Energy, Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Intuitive Living, Personal Evolution, Popular Posts, Spacious Artists|Tags: , , , , , |

I did not paint this. I just wish I did.:) "The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture... The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a high state of functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence." Robert [...]

Woody and Me, Sittin’ Under a Tree

By |2016-08-30T14:36:58-05:00May 20th, 2011|Categories: Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Intuitive Living, Personal Coaching, Personal Evolution, Spacious Artists|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Woody Harrelson all natural. Who knew Woody Harrelson wrote poetry?  I didn’t, until recently when I ran across his poem, Alien Creature, and this line of clarity:    I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world.   Me too. When do we get to free-write through life with our modifiers dangling, [...]

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