What does living in the question mean to you? To stand in front of the blank canvas, to trust that something will come to you as you paint, write or compose can be almost overwhelming. For me the key to being able to sit in the place of unknowing is to embrace my curiosity. I love this quote from one of my all-time favorite authors: "What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What [...]

Life has a way of blowing me around like a leaf in the wind. Sometimes it will lift me up and at other times it drags me under the waves. Moving into this new year did not play out as I anticipated. I had lots of plans and ideas, but I have learned not to swim against the current in a riptide. I know to swim parallel to the shore until I no longer feel the pull and then I can change direction. There have been times I just had to sit on my hands and wait for the riptide to [...]