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Systems Engineer and Strategist

Ink & Alchemy

I can help you align your life and your business with your dearest dreams and desires.

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I want you to have this.

Hello, sweet sunshine: You've been on my mind and I'm reaching out this morning to let you know that though it may not be evident, you're on my mind A LOT. I wonder how you're doing over there and I hope that each day finds you curious and seeking new adventure. I have this same wish and intention for myself because I want to walk through my days - my life - deeply connected to this experience and to those around me. What a joy it is that we're here together, right now. One of the ways I find...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Oh hey there, Reader! I hope your early summer is ripe with possibility and beauty. I'm dropping by to let you know that it was time to do a little clean up on the workshop content for A Call to Create. You have access for the lifetime of the workshop and I hope you take full advantage of that. Take my word for it, each time you go through the content or work a little more on your incredible creations, it's a different experience and it just gets better and better. It is my dearest wish that...

10 months ago • 1 min read

Hola! I've recently returned from Mexico and I've been working on my Spanish. Want to meet me on Duolingo? Brushing up on Spanish is just one way I've been learning something new. I find that creating new things in my life gives each day more depth and meaning and I REALLY DIG THAT. A couple of days ago, I facilitated a creative workshop with Mindful Soul Center, which was fabulous and challenged my tech skills as I balanced the Zoom meeting, the slides, and tried to make sure I was looking...

over 1 year ago • 1 min read

I mean, COME ON - I'm very convincing. Same? Any of this sound familiar? Nah, I don't need to get up this early, I'll [fill-in-the-blank with whatever thing I'm definitely NOT doing later], do it later. I'll get back on track next week. No sense of bothering now, it already started. I'm running late. Sometimes, we undermine our own dreams and desires by making excuses and then falling for them. Another biggie is having an all or nothing mentality. This is hardly ever true, by the way. For...

over 1 year ago • 1 min read

Yeah, me too. I felt that way for SO MANY years but there was something in me that really wanted to share. I didn't understand this at the time, but I realize now that subconsciously I understood that: sharing my work would change me as a person. COMPLETELY. others would be inspired or encouraged by my work. THIS BLEW ME AWAY. I have some opinions on sharing your creative work and (spoiler alert), if you have an urge to share, then I think it's definitely something you should do. Watch this...

over 1 year ago • 1 min read

...or loud, ambitious, passionate or the plethora of other things we shouldn't say SORRY for. Reader, let's stop doing that, okay? my thoughts on this topic Please interpret this email as a reminder that we are allowed to take up space in this world. We won't apologize for things that are simply part of being alive in this world. What a gift and privilege that is - let's revel in it! For the record, I've done my share of apologizing when I was thoughtless or rude. Sigh. And I will probably do...

over 1 year ago • 1 min read

No, not your tattoo, Reader - although it's pretty snazzy. So what do I mean by that? Watch the video here Do you feel this way, too? Do you ever get frustrated with the empty, surface conversations? They are the discussion equivalent of reality TV (ick). How can we shift our relationships away from these into meaningful, interesting discourse? Start by being the kind of person who has these conversations. Introduce these kinds of topics with others. Don't be surprised if it falls flat at...

over 1 year ago • 1 min read

Does sitting down to write a poem (or anything else), intimidate you? Maybe you're not sure where to start or you think that you're not educated or smart enough to write a poem. Or maybe somewhere along the line you were told that a poem has to look a certain way or a sound a certain way. Wrong, wrong, and oh-so-wrong. Reader, you've got great things inside of you. Feel that? There are brilliant, wise, and important words stirring in your chest. Let's release them. Once they start flowing,...

over 1 year ago • 1 min read

I do, too. Reader, some days, the world feels full off danger. This affects our nervous systems. The other day, I was working in a public space with a friend/business collaborator. As she and I were deep in discussion, a balloon suddenly burst nearby. The moment I heard the sound, which was behind me, I thought it was a gunshot and I was thrown into deep fear. The kind of fear that makes your body go numb. I could see that she was experiencing something similar. We took a deep breath and...

almost 2 years ago • 2 min read

I have to wring out the light The fact that this love will one day leave me empty is not enough to stop me from speaking soft words into the rough bark of trees. Weekends will still find me bent over the lighted glass sorting seeds the size of pepper grains, my hands transformed into spring grass in a long forgotten field, swaying and dipping, beholden to nothing, certainly not the face of a ticking clock. Some evenings, long after the watering and weeding have been done, I wrap myself in...

almost 2 years ago • 1 min read
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