And thank you for the comment on yesterday's post. I am very, very interested in the work you have done. Did you study a particular "school" of therapy theory, or did you develop a story method on your own, over time?
blisschick--i am thinking you and i may need to have a conversation soon about our various ventures as i, too, am very, very interested about the work you are doing.
my "school" of therapy was principally relational and/or narrative therapy. over time, however, by doing my own work, witnessing others, working with soltura and writing writing writing, i have/am developing my own methods. i principally find methods or ways of doing things that resonate with me or simply come out of my intuition and later find they have an official name.
thanks for asking. your posts continue to be extremely on point for me...so much so, that i find little need to write anymore, but can simply refer to you.
Ahh, like Gabriella Moonlight said, so simple and yet so incredibly true. Isn't THAT the frustration. We want everything to be madly horrible unaccomplishable but its actually simple as long as we have the courage to look. I did so on Monday in my art therapy session and I love myself for it :) And, afterwards, a headache so massive I felt ill. I've been carrying around that particular glob of suppressed anger for 20 years and it threatened to almost pop the top of my head off via the headache. Thank God for appropriate times of release, and the willingness to go there. I am joying today :)
Where to begin? I've missed so much as I meander with my camera and live in the actual world these days ... but I've just read a BUNCH of your posts in Google Reader and now I'm trying to think. Happy belated anniversary! May you share many more happy years together. I loved the photo of your beloved fur-friend and daughter ... totally relate to PRESS DELETE (there have been more than 1000 unread posts in GR for months now so I have no idea just how far behind I might be ... resisting the urge to mark all as read but allowing myself to spend as much time as I can reading and responding ... then allow myself to close the reader and walk away from my computer without guilt) because like Mary Oliver ... I'm free (when I allow myself to be). I dunno when I'll get back here (or to Lucy Creates) but know that you're in my thoughts often and Grace Abounds is in my hands frequently. Hugs and blessings,
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years - Donald Miller
Rekindling the Flame: St. Brigid - Rita Minehan
Glendolough: A Celtic Pilgrimage - M. Rodgers & M. Losack
The Art of Pilgrimage - Phillip Cousineau
Listening for the Heartbeat of God - J. Philip Newell
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Recovery of Your Inner Child - Lucia Capacchione
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society - M.A. Shaffer & A. Barrows
The Power of Your Other Hand - Lucia Capacchione
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The GIrls from Ames - Jeffrey Zaslow
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolfe
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Becoming Who You Are - James Martin, SJ
Sing Them Home - Stephanie Kallos
Garden of Hollows - Jan Richardson
Seeking Peace - Mary Pipher
Liar's Club - Mary Karr
Your Life as Story - Tristine Rainer
Shimmering Images - Lisa Dale Norton
This House of Sky - Ivan Doig
Who is Lucy?
Lucy is Me. She is my alter ego. She is all that irritates me and a reminder of all that inspires me. She is playful, cynical, carefree, serious, a helper and a loner. She reminds me to get over myself and not take Me so seriously—to put my hair up, don my crown with flowers and just be—glistening and glowing; clear-headed and free; light as the clouds not dark as a thunderhead; playful and joyous not mean and controlling; a cartoon; a caricature; a vision of life; my soul mate; my companion; my friend. She is with me always. She brings me balance. She inspires me to create. She stretches me and makes me laugh. She reminds me where complaining and controlling take me and when it’s time to stop being complacent—to move—to get past myself and don my pigtails or take up my pen. Laugh with me, Lucy. Together we will dissolve into the belly laughs that are the very essence of Me. Lucy Lives. Lucy Creates. Lucy Inspires.
"See how far the little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." -- Wm Shakespeare
"Simplicity and greatness go together." - Monty Cralley
"Mindfulness is neither difficult nor complex: Remembering to be mindful is the great challenge." - Christina Feldman
"Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place." - Henri Nouwen
"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
" There are 3 rules to writing a novel, unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - W. Somerset Maughm
"Bathed in morning light, pray that the lantern of your life move gently this day into all those places where light is needed." -- Macrina Wiederkehr (sevensacredpauses)
"May images come to draw things together for you and bloom juiciness within your soul like sweet oranges in winter." - Christine V. Paintner
"I write to discover what I know."--Flannery O'Connor
“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal…”--Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." --Sebastian R.N. Chamfort
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." --Buddah
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full of paradox and contradiction. It's only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast." -- Madeliene L'Engle
"To love beauty is to see light." -- Victor Hugo
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." --Frederick Buechner (on vocation)
"The winds of grace are blowing all the time, you only have to raise your sail."--Sri Ramakrishna
"Laughter is carbonated holiness." (Plan B)--Anne Lamott
"The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousness." from God Calling
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."--Mother Teresa
"Without the warming & mellowing that good friendship brings into life, we invariably lose gratitude and joy." --Ronald Rolheiser
"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings.
"Come to the edge, He said. They said: we are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew..." Guillaume Apollinaire.
2007 Book List
19 Minutes - Jodi Picoult
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
The Call - Oriah
Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Devil in the Jr. League - Linda Francis Lee
Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
a Generous Orthodoxy - Brian D. McLaren
Just Like Heaven - Patrick McDonnell
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady - Florence King
7 comments:
Lucy, Perfect. :)
And thank you for the comment on yesterday's post. I am very, very interested in the work you have done. Did you study a particular "school" of therapy theory, or did you develop a story method on your own, over time?
I love this image!
xoxoxo
blisschick--i am thinking you and i may need to have a conversation soon about our various ventures as i, too, am very, very interested about the work you are doing.
my "school" of therapy was principally relational and/or narrative therapy. over time, however, by doing my own work, witnessing others, working with soltura and writing writing writing, i have/am developing my own methods. i principally find methods or ways of doing things that resonate with me or simply come out of my intuition and later find they have an official name.
thanks for asking. your posts continue to be extremely on point for me...so much so, that i find little need to write anymore, but can simply refer to you.
namaste.
SS--it's really wonderful, isn't it?
see you soon! xoxooxox
I love this and would very much like to see more of your "Book of Hours".
There's something a little spooky happening here though girl, your image is very, very similar in style to a self-portrait I'm working on at present.
I may put it aside for a few days and see what direction it takes.
Wow, so simple and yet so incredibly true...thank you!
Is that pic you, Lucy? Awesome.
Ahh, like Gabriella Moonlight said, so simple and yet so incredibly true. Isn't THAT the frustration. We want everything to be madly horrible unaccomplishable but its actually simple as long as we have the courage to look. I did so on Monday in my art therapy session and I love myself for it :) And, afterwards, a headache so massive I felt ill. I've been carrying around that particular glob of suppressed anger for 20 years and it threatened to almost pop the top of my head off via the headache. Thank God for appropriate times of release, and the willingness to go there. I am joying today :)
Where to begin? I've missed so much as I meander with my camera and live in the actual world these days ... but I've just read a BUNCH of your posts in Google Reader and now I'm trying to think. Happy belated anniversary! May you share many more happy years together. I loved the photo of your beloved fur-friend and daughter ... totally relate to PRESS DELETE (there have been more than 1000 unread posts in GR for months now so I have no idea just how far behind I might be ... resisting the urge to mark all as read but allowing myself to spend as much time as I can reading and responding ... then allow myself to close the reader and walk away from my computer without guilt) because like Mary Oliver ... I'm free (when I allow myself to be). I dunno when I'll get back here (or to Lucy Creates) but know that you're in my thoughts often and Grace Abounds is in my hands frequently.
Hugs and blessings,
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