Pulling threads
Notes and news from the present moment, on its swift way to becoming past.
Small Pleasures: Three FOLD Vessels
Three FOLD Vessels are included in the group show Small Pleasures at Propeller Gallery in Toronto on display March 5-23, 2025. Meet the artists at the reception on March 8, 2-4 pm, at 30 Abell Street.
Reading at the Ampersand Review Launch Jan 22, 2025
I’m reading poetry at the launch of The Ampersand Review, Issue 7 on Wednesday, January 22, 6pm. Join us at the Hazel McCallion Central Library in Mississauga, or watch on Instagram Live @ampersandreview.
New Year Greetings
Writing to you from under a blue, blue sky, I send happy good wishes for the New Year — and for the new quarter-century! May all your transitions be smooth and landings soft.
Winter Solstice And a Peace Mobile
A seasonal note to you this morning — welcome Monday and a very full moon! This is my last week of classes at Mosaic Yoga Studio before a quiet rest over the holiday season. We are so close now to Winter!
On December 21, join me for labyrinth walk to mark the change of season…details below…
Experimental Interventions
My multi-media assemblage, Memory Folds / Birth Place, is on display at Propeller Gallery in Toronto, one of over 40 intriguing responses to the curator’s call for work that employs material and techniques in ways that are outside the artist’s usual scope. See the work online through December 23, 2024.
Autumn Comes: Monday Meditation & A Walk in the Park
A new time! Meditation Mondays at Mosaic — 7:30pm for a joyful mix of chanting and breath work to smoothe our nervous systems.
On Sunday, September 22 at 4pm we mark the first day of Autumn with a walk through the labyrinth at Hawk Hill, in High Park. Practice outside in the elements is such a beautiful way to connect to the seasons unfolding. Join us!
Summer Solstice: A Walking Meditation in the Park
Saturday, June 22, at 2pm
Join me to mark the turn of the season with a walk through the labyrinth at Hawk Hill, in High Park.
Walking meditation is a wonderful way to enter a different state of mind, with the repetition and meandering lines of the labyrinth giving us a form to shape the practice. Movement in community and in the elements, all work together to help us move toward a centred state of ease.
Amor Mundi: Love of the World
In Buddhist practice, maitrī — benevolence or loving-kindness — is the foundation of compassion. What better ground to build our capacity for clear-sighted love, to open our hearts in our relationships and in our actions: to deepen our love of the world.
New Year Blessings
I did not expect to feel such lightness at the turn of this year, but it is here and I welcome it. I invite this light to continue to manifest and grow with the new year — celebrating the ordinary and extraordinary light of connection and good will in our community of sentient beings.
Sky Mandalas at Frock
Lay your eyes on Sky Mandala silks — in person — at Frock Toronto…very soon! Available just in time for holiday treats.
Useful Containers
Whether its creative practice, professional practice, or moving with ethical integrity through the world — what is the structure that supports fluidity and steadiness? What supports an ability to open and uncover new ways of being in being?
Simple & Easy
Visit my tiny studio-cubby-hole turned pop-up-shop, at the Flick the Switch Artist’s Collective open studio.
Within the storm
Here is Hurricane Lee rolling in, bringing extra excitement to our journey. Weather is such a beautiful metaphor for mind…
and so soon new things come
In the transition from summer to autumn, learning from bardo practice … preparing for Autumn equinoxe, a new yoga schedule and a NEW meditation class
May 6 Workshop: Rope-wall Inversions
In this 2-hour workshop, we will explore inversions such as headstand, handstand, and shoulder-stand, using the rope wall to make the benefits of these poses accessible to practitioners at any level of experience. This workshop will provide opportunities to become comfortable with, or deepen into, these expansive, joyful, liberating poses.
March Equinoxe
A detail from “Spring Cross” — one of three new Sky Mandalas released as the northern spring begins…a poem published for you to read…and other good news!