One of the disadvantages of the digital world is that the content normally consigned to diaries and journals is now something that can be put out into the world for consumption by anyone. As someone who wrote diaries and journals avidly before my age hit double digits, I started putting my thoughts out in publicContinue reading “Janus Gift #2 – Reclaim Journaling”
Category Archives: Reluctant Spirit
Janus Gift #1 – The Practice of Practice
One of the things about being labeled – or branded – a gifted child (GC) in the United States is that you don’t get the opportunity to fail that much. Things come naturally to you, or you learn so fast, that being BAD at something feels like a moral failing rather than a straightforward processContinue reading “Janus Gift #1 – The Practice of Practice”
2019 Gifts to Myself, a.k.a. Janus Gifts
Some people make resolutions. Some people set goals or intentions. Some people want fresh starts. It’s all kind of the same principle – folks generally want change for the better, and a new year is the kind of threshold that lends itself to making large gestures towards that end. I have a particular affinity forContinue reading “2019 Gifts to Myself, a.k.a. Janus Gifts”
The Length and Depth of Grief
One of the (many) things that annoys me about how we teach children about life is how rarely we talk to them about the different ways in which grief, as in you’ve lost someone grief, represents in different people. We don’t talk about how to deal with it and how to help others with it.Continue reading “The Length and Depth of Grief”
Choosing A Word Of The Year For 2018
I never used to do a word of the year. It seemed kind of reductionist to me, like how can you fit a whole year’s worth of intentions into a single word? I would do other things instead, like spells* or tarot spreads* or wishes or resolutions … which to me all boil down toContinue reading “Choosing A Word Of The Year For 2018”
My Dragonfly Year
I don’t know why, but it’s been tough for me to write about this year’s birthday omen. Last birthday, I felt a sense of delight and freedom when writing of my incoming butterfly year. This time, I’ve been sort of blank about the writing, even though I’ve felt that same sense of delight when watchingContinue reading “My Dragonfly Year”
My Butterfly Year
Yesterday, the first wildlife I saw was a butterfly! Hurray, this means this is finally a butterfly year! “What in the world are you talking about, Risa?” you might be asking. (Particularly those of you who didn’t know me in college.) Since I was 25, my relationship with my spirituality has been more than aContinue reading “My Butterfly Year”
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