Isabella Mori is a psychotherapist and writer. Her blog “change therapy” deals with the wide range of experience of our inner lives, from the joyous ” 9 ways to feed the spirit to the academic 10 paradoxes of creative people , from the hopeful recovering anorexia to the amusing Inspired by Dr. Suess.
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Remember Arletta Dawdy’s poem “Clara’s Air” posted May 12, 13 and 14 in three parts? Here she is again with “The Apple Factory” which grew out of a conversation in the 1970s with an elderly neighbor as they stood in her kitchen window looking out on the apple orchard that backed both their homes.
Both […]

Alyson B. Stanfield is an art-marketing consultant who writes on the business of art for her Art Biz Blog. It is intimately connected with the weekly Art Marketing Action newsletter. Postings range from pricing and promoting your art to working with galleries and cultivating collectors.
Alyson and Eric focus on mindfulness techniques for visual artists in […]

The Daughter Remembers
I remember when you woke me, Mom, at 1 a.m., against all precedent,
to watch the shimmering red-blue aurora borealis and the dark night and stillness.
You wrapped me in a red-checked blanket and held me close, until I fell asleep against you, arms wrapped tight.
I remember when you divided the mums to cover the […]

Maya Talisman Frost has taught thousands of people how to pay attention. Through her company, Real-World Mindfulness Training, she teaches playful, eyes-wide-open ways to get calm, clear and creative. She trains clients around the world by phone and email and publishes the “Friday Mind Massage”, a weekly ezine with subscribers in over 100 countries. Maya’s […]

The Nurse Remembers
I remember the first meeting, as we signed her up…being in silence as I took her vitals and did the paperwork. Her cancer was so large when we found it, you could see it in her breast. We talked about her pain.
I remember when she first was wheeled in to the nursing home, […]

Donna Druchunas is a freelance technical writer and editor and a knitwear designer. When she’s not working, she reviews books about science, religion, and skepticism and mouths off on the Skepchick blog where she is part of a team of thinking women who reject superstition and pseudo-science and prefer to use reason and evidence to […]

I REMEMBER
The Woman Remembers
I remember, as a child, longing for summer and sunshine
during the coldest months of the year. I sometimes doubted that winter would ever end.
I remember the heat of the sun. My skin blistered.
I remember kissing Don in the back seat, and our guilty touches.
I remember the electric feel on my skin when […]

At the Spring 2007 Integrating Spirit and Caregiving Conference I just attended the “I Remember” exercise was the centerpiece of my Give Sorrow Words workshop. Participants grouped at tables around newsprint created a life story for a woman who has dementia. Each table wrote from a different perspective/role/voice.
·The woman herself (the patient)
·Her husband
·Her […]

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak,
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.
(Shakespeare, Macbeth, 5.1.50-1)