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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 […]

A Healing Effect

August 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”  ~ thich nhat hahn Describing a feeling is never easy unless I have an acute sense of it’s components. I have been living under an umbrella of grief for 23 months now so I can describe that […]

Heartbreak

March 23, 2014 · 1 Comment

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” ~Mark Twain It is real – the root of the thing.  But is made distant by the everything else. I am creative and powerful Yet I cannot shun the weight of it It is cornered – me and it together Win […]

Resistance

February 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment

  Lots of pain and lots of tears and lots of strategies employed to get through a rough patch. I am so weary of revisiting these dark places. But by claiming and naming them, by the simple passage of time, and with help from those who care about me – I am slowly coming back […]

Dissolving the Ego

December 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dissolving the Ego is like selling the first car you ever owned. You are attached to it. You have depended on it to take you places since… forever  It is how you move around, get attention, how you are able to carry all that stuff around with you wherever you go. How could you ever […]

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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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