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A Vivacious Cycle

April 19, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” ~mary anne radmacher Sometimes I feel like I’m absurdly gifted with things nobody wants. Like, “She is really […]

Don’t Postpone Joy

December 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Today I am here… “Picture in your inner eye, your inner sight, four avocado seeds on the window sill. Three are suspended in a glass of water and have sprouted. One is still dry and papery and brown. Each of the sprouting seeds has its own character. One has two long roots, like two rubbery […]

Good Purposeless-ness…from Other Voices

October 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“like the lovely, free-form edge of a bird’s wings, we cultivate our essence, an alchemy of soul…..this, simply by being present and alive…..yes, fully alive……”  ~ in the blue Our Strength Found in Fragile Depths  “I am especially struck with the idea of the purposeless life, filling the well with snow. I suppose all life […]

Pumpkin Bread

October 1, 2014 · Leave a Comment

He loved Pumpkin Bread. He loved a lot of specific things. He knew what he liked because after much living and much thinking about living he made a point to extract the wheat from the chaff. He knew by practical experimentation which things worked best and he held tight to those things.  So I always […]

Creating From Wholeness

August 17, 2014 · 2 Comments

“I am going to tell a story with great meaning. I am going to make you cry, then make you laugh.”  ~ me to myself after dreaming strange things. In my past I have created things (comedy, paintings, writing… even relationships) from a hungry place so I could feel worthy. Creation to fill emptiness, though still good stuff, is weighted down […]

The Rush of Simple Pleasure

April 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I felt there again. It was so sweet, that connection to one’s I love. We had dinner, my dear friends and I. We discussed all sorts of real and true things about our daily lives, but nothing heavy, nothing too deep. Just regular sharing and regular joy.  Their, now 2, baby’s care came first as […]

Transported by Joy

March 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

The sun is shining and the cool winds of a burgeoning spring are blowing thru my hair. I am driving home after a great day of doing what I love. I am joy.  Time is stopped as a wonderful feeling surges from within. Then I see the break lights. But there is no thing that can come between me […]

Joy Springs Up in Unexpected Places

February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Do you know the sound the cartoon dog makes when he shoots his head straight up and suddenly becomes aware of something? And his warm, sweet and goofy awareness changes everything and comically moves the story forward? Well – I am making that sound – dumb lovable feisty me. I am suddenly aware that I […]

Darkness, Play, Joy

February 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“What if this is what it looks like while my dream of the end of Apartheid is happening?  What if my being in this very situation is… part of… my overcoming?”~Nelson Mandela about his imprisonment“Just how do we deal with agitations of the dark? How do we make our way through the tangle of being […]

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Lani received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and earned a B.A in Art Education from NCCU in 2000.
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