How Creativity Fuels Resilience. Published in Sonoma County Gazette, August 2023. Inspiration sometimes comes from sticks left on the ground after the storm. Everything torn apart leaves chaos in its path. My life has been culminating in a perfect storm: Sonoma County wildfires, pandemic, and multiple bouts with ovarian cancer. With nowhere to hide or […]
Read More Turning Ashes to GoldBrushing myself off from over 2 years fighting Ovarian Cancer (progressed to stage 4 and scans are now showing CLEAR!), I arrive to a whole new me, Jendala, made up, imagined, fought for, and now rising like the Phoenix. But I am reaching out today to ask for your support to activate my dream for […]
Read More Dream Launch!Wrapping up 2022 on this last day of December 31st, I’m finally pulling out my laptop to journal, which has been months since expressing. I haven’t had my creativity flow for some time now. I imagine this block is due to my energy having to go into my healing from another fight with chemo after […]
Read More 2022 rebirthing to the authentic and new meIt was this time last August that the Walbridge and Lightening Complex fires broke out. On the eve of that memorable firestorm, I was mostly packed for a planned mini adventure to the Southern Oregon Coast. Having volunteered at our Healdsburg evacuation center for both Tubbs 2017 and Kincade 2019 fires, I experienced the strong […]
Read More The Power of Embrace: How I’m winning my fight with cancer. 8/22/2021Fire found me in my 20’s upon launching a career as a firefighter in the deserts of Arizona. Its remarkable beauty grabbed ahold of me. As I was being trained to extinguish fire, this same element was teaching me to follow my hearts’ desire. I bought torches during the academy and began playing with its […]
Read More Forged by Fire, Carved with Love 02-21-21The pain goes so deep, I grossly compare ……. to the warts on my right foot that I’ve carried for over 40 years. Yes… that long….embarrassing to reveal, cut and burned they continue to reappear. Digging them out it burns like fire, similar to the boiling I often feel inside. Ignore, don’t look, so the […]
Read More Finding Where Beauty ResidesThoughts lingering, gathering, crowding as I saturate my mind. One thought merged with another creating entangled clusters grinding around. Too much to think, to even listen, or to write down as my mind spins like a tornado, I’m forced to slow down. Surrendering, I breathe finding one thought at a time, grounding to the earth […]
Read More That Single ThoughtThe perfect patch of grass on the perfect afternoon. The sun so warm but not melting my skin, captured in delight of being human. Doesn’t take much when in perfect balance to drift away to a delight some call heaven. Shade near-by for retreat if it heats up too much, knowing that I’m supported in […]
Read More Patch of GrassSURVIVAL: Let’s step into this mode for a second here… evaluate how all is going…. because I’m sick of trying to figure it out. Around and around and around I go doing the same ole things not knowing where to flow. I take off time to “try” and figure it out by visiting nature and […]
Read More Shattering DreamsWriter’s block for years and years, maybe because becoming a writer is what I fear. Listening to my own thoughts out loud shared with the world, the transparency and rawness available to all. Tho it is my choice to share among you or not, so I’m saddling up to this keyboard to see what comes […]
Read More Breaking the Block
