by Kate | Nov 2, 2012 | Creativity, kind promises
Kind Promise: I will appreciate blessings. To appreciate my blessings means to feel gratitude. (When I arranged my kind promises for the year, I chose this one so that it could coincide with the season of Thanksgiving.) Yesterday, I asked myself, “what color...
by Kate | Aug 31, 2012 | Creativity, kind promises, Surrender
Kind Promise: I will ask for and accept help gracefully. Creative Experiment to explore asking for and receiving help: Ask a partner to help you with a small creative project. Ask your partner to help define the project. Take turns with each step: one partner asks the...
by Kate | Aug 3, 2012 | Creativity, kind promises
Kind Promise: I will share strengths. I wanted to make some art about strength. My mind was casting about for images. What says strength to me? I remembered Rocky on the top of the stairs, Georgia O’Keeffe’s wrinkled face, a tree I saw that had grown...
by Kate | Apr 27, 2012 | Creativity, meditation, mindfulness, monsters
Practicing mindfulness of the moment brings me to be more conscious of what happens when I’m not in the moment. It makes me more aware of my monster-mind. The other day, I was painting (yay!). In the moment, I am watching blobs of color interact with paper and...
by Kate | Mar 30, 2012 | chronic illness, Creativity, Disability, Forgiveness, kind promises, Transformation
When I first began walking with a cane, I would watch others with a real sense of witnessing a miracle. My ankle joint no longer worked (“drop foot”) and I used the cane to steady my uneven gait. Other people were able to lift their foot completely off the...
by Kate | Mar 2, 2012 | Creativity, Surrender
>I have been entranced and informed by the image of water dropping as a metaphor for surrender, so I thought I should respond with a painting. As usual, I fantasized about what and how I would like to paint before making the time and space for the actual painting...
