October 3rd 1952 – January 2nd 2023 Cassandra Budlong at her photographic art exhibition at the American Women’s Club of Zurich, 2019. Our small zoom writers group, of which Cassandra was a part, gave her a good send off last week. Helen in San Franciso made Cassandra’s Nana’s scone recipe.…
Stuck vs unstuck
It’s easy to tell others what to do about feeling stuck: “Just move something and that rearranges everything..” But that hasn’t worked for me recently. Fortunately Joy Drake offered a simple formula: Awareness + Choice = Change Awareness + No choice = Stuck What I see now, thanks to Joy’s…
May you bring light
This year, may we each bring more light to our world. Igniting others to do the same. But how?
Going nowhere fast? (The hidden gift)
An exploration of fear as ice on the road and how to navigate it. Recently, while cycling uphill in fog, I hit a patch of ice on the road. Suddenly my wheels were spinning but I was going nowhere fast. Sound a bit like your life this past year?…
New Start?
Perhaps one day, we’ll look back on this period of our lives and say, “Hallelujah!” Even though we don’t yet know why. If you google “Hallelujah” (as I just did to check my spelling) you will find Leonard Cohen’s spine-tingling “Hallelujah” on Youtube and straight after it, another Cohen classic:…
How can art triumph over violence?
“Remember that your nations measure you by what you create and not by what you destroy.” What to do about the growing number of disappearing journalists, the escalating violence towards environmentalist activists, or concerned citizens who dare to speak up about pipelines going through their sacred grounds, or about their…
The Return of Jennifer
Suddenly the name Jena feels too tight. And Jennifer has returned home, to remind me to step into a bigger, more authentic version of myself. She was a gift from my parents and only called on when it was “time to really get serious”. Therefore I’m happy to have her…
Markus Hirzig on fake news
Extract from a rough transcript from a 6 May 2020 private group call with Markus Hirzig 16.45 “The game board is alive. When we make the next step the game board changes. The moment you notice that, you make an evolutionary step . Your neighbors change , the game board expands. Your perspective,…