“Y’know, Mrs. Smith thinks you’re full of it.” My friend Lou has just come crashing through my door with this announcement. I look up from my keyboard and raise my eyebrows at him in what I hope is a questioning expression… he flops down across from me. “Well, she didn’t put it exactly that way.” … Read More
Author: Lisa Lindahl
Flashback…
One of the advantages of being a writer is that one tends to chronicle events, eras, moods, relationships. Well, so maybe it’s not always an advantage… Anyway, I came across this essay I wrote back in the mid 1990’s. I meant to submit it for publication, but got cold feet — an oft-experienced issue for … Read More
Bye Beautiful Summer… A Gallery
Dear Summer, Until we meet again… Love, Lisa ps: I haven’t forgotten the images from Mother Emmanuel AME Church, or Baltimore, or Ferguson… they live in my soul, and inform my voice (as … Read More
Does Mainstream Media Create An Unhealthy “Reality?”
Media Hysteria, Gloom & Doom: A Rant Whether calling it intention, prayer or “manifesting desire” it is a fairly well accepted concept these days that thought – intention — has the power to effect, even create, our reality. While I believe that intention does influence our reality, I think it is not in the obvious … Read More
Disassociating from Beauty
Losing touch… How is it that we get separated from our engagement with True Beauty? How does it happen and what replaces it? One example might be as simple as our eating mode. These days we are so separated from our food sources that children think chickens come from plastic boxes or buckets and spinach … Read More