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A Middle Aged Woman in a Mini Cooper

by Admin | Feb 28, 2024 | Darlene's Blog, Featured

I want to write about longing. What it is to feel pulled to a different life than the one you’re living – and to resist that pull. Existing in a constant tension between what you desire and what you think is possible, practical, reasonable, admirable. Putting...

Introduction to Creative Ecology

by Admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Darlene's Blog, Featured

It has taken most of my life to understand the conditions that best support me as a creative being. In the absence of this knowledge I have often felt ungrounded and unsure. Finding it has made me at once more stable and more free. Here’s what I know for sure about...

St. Michael is Kind to Strangers

by Admin | Jan 23, 2024 | Darlene's Blog, Scotland Retreat

Traveller’s Log, Edinburgh Fringe Festival “St. Michael is kind to strangers.” It’s the motto of Linlithgow, the royal burgh where I am staying and it’s printed on everything here. St. Michael has certainly been kind to me. Strangers have been kind to me too. On the...

After Inspiration, The Skill Gap

by Admin | Jan 19, 2024 | Darlene's Blog

“After enlightenment, the laundry.” That’s what the Buddha taught. I have my own version of this teaching. “After inspiration, the skill gap.” It’s a truth I bump up against whenever I start a creative project. In the beginning...

Style and Fit

by Admin | Jan 8, 2024 | Darlene's Blog, Featured

When I was young our family didn’t have much money, so most of my clothes were handmade by my mother or hand me downs from charity boxes. I wore dresses most of the time (it was forbidden to wear pants to school) and my wardrobe was divided between Sunday Best...