The Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi is defined in Wikipedia as: ” A comprehensive  Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.  I look at as ‘perfection in imperfection’. Kind of like life.  I see…

As I was speaking with a client today, we were discussing ways that people learn who they are and how they re-create themselves when major life changes occur. I remembered a scene from one of my favorite films:  Joe vs. the Volcano. Tom Hanks plays Joe Banks who  has a dreary, gray life, with predictability, as…

My four year old ‘grand-dude’ Collin likes to play ‘good guys/bad guys, heroes/villains. He’ll run around, roaring and pouncing, making kinda mean faces. I pretend to be scared and succumb to his antics. Tonight he told me that one of his new superpowers was to encase people in bubbles “for-EVER”. That is, until he decides to…

  I am writing this entry on December 30th. At this time tomorrow, I will be ushering in the New Year with festive friends, who I am grateful to know. Music, dancing, drumming, food, hugs, smooches and general celebratory silliness will be part of it, I’m sure. On the day before, I am focused on…

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