My deepest daily practice + free ‘Temple Muse’ class #759

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.” 
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to A Young Poet

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Letter #759 Includes

• Invitation to join me and 30 teachers for the LIFE BOOK FREE Creativity & Wellbeing Summit.
• Join us TODAY for the Bay Area Women’s Healing Arts Collective – our next meetings are TODAY online and tonight in Sonoma, come meet me and have some tea! Join us if you are looking for a classroom space for your work in the world – our school can be your school!
• Learn about our upcoming events online and in person including Sonoma, Tiburon and Anderson Valley schoolofintentionalcreativity.org
• Red Thread Letter #759 about my deepest daily practice

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Get your creative juices flowing!

How about time just for YOU to get out the markers, pick up the brush and play? This can be your cafe time. With over 30 women teachers providing inspiration you could have so much fun! I am part of this worldwide event with over 10,000 people attending – it’s called the Life Book 2019 Creativity and Wellbeing Summit.

Join for FREE and receive 30 interviews, creative activities and more. I LOVED my interview with the ever creative Tamara Laporte. She is a great interviewer, and we dove into the quantum world, my early art challenges and explored why I think EVERYONE should make art!!

My teaching includes a free class, to meet the Temple Muse, the one who lives within the sacred chamber of your body. Creating alignment for your chosen path of well-being through connection between your right and left brain and your heart! It is brand new content and it speaks right to the heart of my work at this time.

Join me + RSVP for Free

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Dear One,

Today I want to share with you one of the most rewarding and enriching parts of my life. Red Thread Cafe. This photo was taken this morning at cafe before we went to the beach and took a walk. Red Thread Cafe is not just a concept. Not a branding move. Not something I just talk about and don’t do. Red Thread Cafe is the name I have given to an experience that I participate in every single day. This is my ritual with myself, my community, and my lover. But it didn’t start with me. It goes back to my twenties. Yet it goes further back than that, all the way to the early sixties before I was born….

In my experience, Red Thread Cafe started with a teaching from Sue Hoya Sellars. “Cafe” was something she did every single day. And I love it. And I miss her so much, miss having this time with her.

She told me the story of not having money for a studio so she would go to Denny’s pay .25 cents for a cup of coffee and sit at that table at times all day, with as many refills as she wanted, working in her notebook. She said this was her studio….

Then she kept it going, having time each day in her ‘notebook’ and taught it to me. The mornings with her in the studio she would eventually build up at our land, Terra Sophia, were some of the best of my life. That was the birth place of Intentional Creativity – and she happened to be stirring a cup of coffee when she told me about putting my intention into my creation.

What is ‘cafe’?

Cafe is time to dream. To create. To think. To read. To ask impossible questions. To explore. To sit still. To work in your notebook. To share time with your child. To share time with your elder. To share time with your lover.

Jonathan and I do this EVERY SINGLE day. We are totally committed to this practice, and to one another. We look forward to it at night and it helps us get up in time in the morning. We plan our lives around this time with the Muse. I cannot recommend it ENOUGH to you. To try it…It is a time of connection. This is my deepest daily practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to tell you that asking impossible questions, being in inquiry in wonder is so potent and this is something I learned, not just from Sue but from my mom, Caron, who is so playful, so interesting and interested, she taught me curiosity. This quote was hanging in our kitchen all of our life….

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to A Young Poet 

I am so grateful for my precious mama of my soul and body, Caron, and the mother of my heart, Sue. I had two moms and consider myself very lucky. My father, has been a challenge for me all of my life, through addiction and absence and my first experience of someone being truly mean to me. As I grow older and look at all that I have learned, I can see that my three parents have all taught me something. Two of them, from love and one of them, through another way, but all of them taught me what I need to know in this life. My ‘cafe’ of love would not have been what it is without them.

Could you invite your family to a cafe? Would you try?

My Temple Muse class, and interview with Tam for Life Book could be a way to begin cafe. Just make a cup of tea or coffee and create!

Signed with a red thread of connection,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here I am having ‘cafe’ at Terra Sophia last week!

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