Pictures
Post-It notes covering a wall.
Post-It frenzy.

The Waiting and the Coming

Poems

The waiting and the coming,
The starting and the end,
The striving and the ceasing,
The fork around the bend.

The waking and the sleeping,
The ripping and the mend,
The loving and the hating,
The long-forgotten friend.

Brief Thoughts (No. 12)

Brief Thoughts

Often, we want something without knowing how hard it will be to get it. Or even to want it. Because wanting something – if you want it badly enough – can exact a high cost. So be prepared.

Quotations

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to Heaven. And when two souls are destined for each other and find each other, their streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being. 

Baal Shem Tov

Pictures
Elizabeth with notebook.
Let’s call this: “A portrait of the writer as a young woman.”

Brief Thoughts (No. 11)

Brief Thoughts

How do you achieve the virtue of self-discipline without becoming stiff and rigid and overly controlled? To lack spontaneity and to be so considered in everything seems a bit inhuman to me. Certainly not my idea of free or fun. But order is pleasing, chaos is not. I swing between extremes. How to tap into my desire for structure and systems while staying flexible and adaptable and – in essence – able to go where the Spirit blows?

Back to Top