Or, I should say, when is betrayal sacred? Because I think the feeling of having been betrayed, one’s trust destroyed, is one of the worst hurts, one of the worst disappointments we can suffer through. It changes everything. What we thought about the world, about ourselves, about life itself. So when [...]
When I looked at art as a child, all I did was marvel. I didn’t have opinions. If it was there for me to look at, whether hanging on the walls of a museum, or printed in a book, or illustrating a story, I looked. It wasn’t until I was in my [...]
In the late 1980s I suddenly conceived the idea of how nice it would be to visit Prague. I was hungering for medieval architecture. For old buildings. Cobblestones. Low doorways and narrow alley ways. I was hungering for the past, for a different time frame, and I understood that Prague [...]
Persona: literally, a person; specifically, a character in a drama, novel, etc. In Jung’s analytic psychology, the conscious artificial or masked personality complex developed by an individual, in contrast to his innate personality characteristics, for purposes of concealment, defense, deception, or adaptation to his environment. From the Latin, a person; originally it [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t posted on here since last August! Maybe I was waiting for another month that began with an “A.” No, the truth is I had trouble speaking / writing to an audience I didn’t know, which is ridiculous when I think about it, because if that was the case, [...]
Transitions
“By changing yourself you change the evolution of the world.” (Stuart Wilde)
Sometimes all we need is guidance through our fears. An outside party uninvolved in the drama, who can pinpoint the stumbling block or blocks, see a way through the maze, show the steps we need to take.
Sometimes all we need is [...]