Every award season in Hollywood, I enjoy watching some of the movies that are up for awards. I don’t put a lot of weight into who wins, but I’m always interested to see who gets nominated. Today I want to highlight two stand-out films that both explore themes of parental abandonment — and two very […]
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Year of the Fire (Core Star) Horse (Hara)
At the start of January, my husband and I decided to choose an animal card for the year. This isn’t a ritual we do every year, some years we’ve pulled multiple cards and sometimes none. Sometimes a year has a feeling or a word. But this year we each drew a card. And I got […]
The Art of Seeing (and Being Seen): A Practice of Presence
In November, I had the opportunity to go to London, England. It was a fast, 4-day trip and on my list was to visit Marina Abramović’s latest exhibit of 1200 photos from her Red Period and Blue Period. While I will try to read the artist’s description of their art, I often find it’s written […]
Well Written Women: A Book Pairing with Margaret Atwood & Curtis Sittenfeld
“You’re going out to a club tonight?” asked one of my son’s friends. I’m unsure of how that possibility entered his mind, and I didn’t ask – I liked the idea that a teenager thought I might be going out to dance. It was 7pm, and I was dressed in hard pants and a nice shirt […]
Heated Rivalry: Vulnerability, Queer Joy & Being an Ally
One of my friends who lives in Washington State invited me to watch a movie filmed near her place. It was a movie full of stunning mountains & forests. With a grin, I then invited her to watch Heated Rivalry, as much of it is filmed around where I live & work. You can walk […]
Rest, Reflect, and Radiate: Healing in a Holographic Universe
This season, change one thing in your life to raise your vibration — and see what shifts As I was driving home from doing some groceries, I happened upon an interview discussing whether the universe was a hologram. The interviewer asked Canadian scientist Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski of the Perimeter Institute to explain what this meant […]
