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...
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...
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...
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...
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...