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
True Beauty and Epilepsy
One of the oldest chronicled disorders, Epilepsy has been steeped in stigma and myth. Those who have it are described as “afflicted” and often face very real forces and forms of discrimination and ridicule. I believe this is due in great part to three basic characteristics of Epilepsy: The first characteristic is its episodic nature; … Read More
The Happy Critic – An Oxymoron?
Can one be critical and find contentment? Can one be content when it is a character trait to always see how something might be improved? Could be changed for the “better”? I am referring to constructive criticism, not the snarky “Oh she shouldn’t wear that dress with those hips” kind. And the definition of content and … Read More
Ageless Wisdom Practices
Supporting Practices for The Way of Beauty At the risk of sharing “platitudes as insights” as one journalist put it recently, there are three Beauty Practices that are old chestnuts, as my mother used to say. They have been in the culture for a very long time, and certainly have not been identified as “Beauty … Read More