finding the flow
Direct quotation from the last blog I posted here:
I still need to tell the story on this blog of how being thrown in the deep end as chef and health coach has been transforming my sense of self and with it my self-care.
It's time. I've been baptized, immersed, had my face rubbed in the mirror of old beliefs that kept me small, and I emerge shining with the conviction that I deserve to express my gifts and be valued for doing so, and that there are so many people out there who deserve to benefit from my gifted help.
Written by Ela Harrison
on Tuesday, 17 May 2016.
Posted in WholeHealth, Mindfulness
perhaps a monster no longer
From the other side of the world, from the other side of thirty-nine years, I salute my then-new mother on the other side of her hard labor.
From the other side of the screen, you--dear reader--come to this blog to see what's new. Sometimes there's a new post every time you check; other times, all is static for a month at a time. Perhaps that unchanged front-page post each time is no less fresh/novel/new than the parade of new posts.
From the other other side, I am still here, I am working hard, I am in material precarity but trusting in divine guidance.
So, what else is new?
Written by Ela Harrison
on Sunday, 28 February 2016.
Posted in Blogging, WholeHealth, Mindfulness
how full can one fill one's ears?
I discovered telesummits and podcasts around the same time, early 2014.
Podcasts were a revelation--a neverending source of information, advice, opinion, from people whose information, advice, opinion I was already interested in, and their guests. Company for my drivetime, company when I hiked.
Telesummits were even more exciting--a galaxy of experts organized around a specific topic, the scintillating scarcity of talks available only 24 or 48 hours.
Superabundance and scarcity both together, in an auditory avalanche for this highly auditory Ela!
Written by Ela Harrison
on Sunday, 10 May 2015.
Posted in Mindfulness
100-Day Gong Day 51
Written by Ela Harrison
on Monday, 09 February 2015.
Posted in WholeHealth, Ela Recommends, Mindfulness
peacefully, in her sleep, 11/6/2014
As a person who talks to dead people and who has tended toward disembodiment herself, I have some different words to add to the celebration and mourning pouring out for Judith Kitchen --
- Wife, mother, grandmother.
- Cofounder, with her husband, poet Stan Sanvel Rubin, of the Rainier Writing Workshop (the MFA program from which I graduated).
- Writer in every genre, with a style both limpidly readable and fiercely intelligent.
- Superbly influential critic, mentor, editor
- Supernaturally gifted "matchmaker" of mentors and students, and so inaugurator of many valuable and productive literary relationships
- Founder of Ovenbird Press; champion of fine writing in a changing literary culture
- Someone who never suffered folly gladly, but who never made a fool out of anyone
Written by Ela Harrison
on Tuesday, 11 November 2014.
Posted in Literary Citizenship