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When Technology Disappears and Your Kidney Meridians Follow Shortly Thereafter PART II

December 30, 2020 By 1 Comment

When Technology Disappears and Your Kidney Meridians Follow Shortly Thereafter <abbr>PART</abbr> II

It turns out that my local Apple-approved repair shop couldn’t sell me a computer because Apple was “hoarding” their supplies. Even though I ordered three days after my computer died, Apple had an 8-week backlog.

EIGHT weeks…no computer.Continue Reading

When Technology Disappears and Your Kidney Meridians Follow Shortly Thereafter PART I

December 15, 2020 By 3 Comments

When Technology Disappears and Your Kidney Meridians Follow Shortly Thereafter <abbr>PART</abbr> I

I have this pattern of disappearing and reappearing. You get emails from me, blog posts, a few events/products, and then I’m gone again.

Is it my generation (growing up with kerosene lamps and candles, running cold water (no hot) instead of computers, cell phones and instant information access anytime anywhere)?

Or is it a function of Continue Reading

What do You do When Grief Takes Over?

August 10, 2020 By Leave a Comment

I remember when my mother was dying. I was getting ready for my orals in graduate school and the one thing I What do You do When Grief Takes Over?couldn’t have imagined, since all mothers are invincible, is that my healthy, vivacious, 83-year-old, artist mother would die.

Time stood still as the nurse put me through to her hospital room.

Only, the woman who answered Continue Reading

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

July 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art

I suspect this question is so deeply personal that it’s like a fingerprint: each of us will respond from the life conditions that have shaped each of us, and shape us still.

There is strong folklore about the value of the suffering artist to her art; that dark times allow for greatness. Personally, I’m not so sure it’s a useful way to look at suffering.

I suspect some of us are Continue Reading

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