Jan 18, 2015 | ideas & inspiration
It came to me easy this time, so obvious a choice my reaction was resist. It was still December, after all, and entirely too soon for the thing to appear. Still there it was. Listen the word said. Listen. THAT’S JUST WHAT I WILL DO! I thought. I’ll wait,...
Jan 9, 2014 | ideas & inspiration
It’s a practice I began three years ago, this notion of a Word for the Year. I am a wanderer, you see, a bloom-to-bloom grazer well served by any semblance of a centering focus. So when writer Winn Collier introduced the concept of a Word for the Year via his...
Jan 23, 2013 | ideas & inspiration
It made its way into my life last January—arriving rather late, I’d say, all things considered. And then there’s the fact it sauntered in, this concept, in no big rush. Just an idea, a comment, really, passing through. And still. Hello, I said, I like you....
Jan 17, 2012 | ideas & inspiration
It’s not so surprising, actually, the fact that I’ve decided to have a Word for the Year. It’s just the kind of thing that appeals to me—a focus for my life, a magnetic field, a centering force when I start to drift (and inevitably I will) toward...
