creating a space for nuanced living
What goes on here
Here we are, working on a coaching logo. These are my rough sketches for getting started.
Lauren, can you help me — do your art magic — and help get working on concepts?
A lot of parts are yet undetermined: my url, a different email, which phone no., a tag line. But getting started, gets it started, no?… Better to work with materials, than stay in the head!
– an orange, colored...
SLM needed a logo. And.. this is a very important place to me. The corridor of my building leading to my studio is long and pretty much plain white, so I also need a sign on my door to know it exists! The process of developing the logo took 5 months (did anyone ever tell you about mom time, tenacity..), 2 very talented designers, a lot of patience (on their part and mine), my steady movement of this thing...
Apr 17th, 2014
Practical mode
My new motto is ~ “Don’t fall behind”. It works pretty well, as a guiding principle. It means staying on top of what is in front of you, keeping the foundations going (of home and self care), responding to things as they come as immediately as possible, moving longer things step-by-step in the context of keeping everything else going, and making sure there is enjoyment. Getting into the present...
Feb 13th, 2014
The threads are decreasing..
The threads are decreasing. I can see it in my bag I carry around. In the pages of notes finding a home, recycled or somewhere. In the categories getting settled in Evernote. In my inbox having a flow. In my email being things I want to receive. In my day increasingly organized by the flow of what comes next and enjoying it. In there being places for the things I need and want in my life. Categories and...
Jan 9th, 2014
Flexibility Revealed
I am so excited to get a work flow that matches my life. So I can contact myself and my materials as soon as they come up. – my writing – my client insights – my learnings – my creative ideas 5 Years in, getting closer. So… with this infrastructure ..life is one big sculpture. They come up so fast, they rush so deep, and life is so fun. Its all getting a work flow to match my life....
Jan 7th, 2014
Exporting Emails
I can’t believe how much letting go I am having to do. Today, again, I go through my next round of exporting and taking whole reams of email folders off of my computer. Papers, institutions, research: I have so much dismantling to do. Funny, I think I am finally arriving at set of categories that are starting to reflect my life. Today, I also arrive at a yoga pose that gets into my tight right hip with...
Aug 6th, 2013
Tools to write & begin birthing
I am super excited about Scrivener. I think this is going to be the writing tool for me! It is #1 super organized, #2 allows you to think about many things at once, #3 is visual, and #4 is more like sculpting. This may be perfect for now! How do I know it may be right for me? Well, I am excited just thinking about it. Its popped up in my life. And writing is a key next step. I notice I have taken on many...
Jun 17th, 2013
Designer teaches me coaching
I am working with a designer. Its great! It is amazing how much manifesting something is about developing a structure around what you are up to. And I can’t do it alone! It is liberating to have upteen small questions answered patiently, have some tutorial basics taught to me about design software where I otherwise limp around, and having someone show up and be there in my work flow, helpful and...
Jun 3rd, 2013
Moving faster
I am starting to move faster. I am moving from the inside. Its leaking more into the outside activities now. I used to need to capture things (writing, organizing) to not forget their depths and be in contact with myself, bigness. It felt so fleeting, tenuous. But funny thing is.. they are knit more into me. My fibers are changing. My energy is different. This is how it is reorganizing: healing, emerging,...
May 9th, 2013
Getting new categories
Its a lot of work getting the new categories in our lives. That is, letting them happen. Knowing when they’re here. And surrendering to let them out. (To again be new. sheesh!) (And not getting buggy in the process.) That’s because they keep changing and evolving, esp. in times of deep change and creating new things from the inside –> out. I’m finding it’s a lot about letting things...
Jan 21st, 2013
Getting a new front page…. Arriving at enjoying (in-joy)
When I started making the website, I knew wanted a “Making the Studio Tab”, but who knew it would take 1.5 yr to get back to what inspired me: representing the joy of things that spark quiet beauty, a place for calm excitement. In the last year and a half, I budded off many categories I wanted: a place for funky photographs (today’s photo), a spot for deep learnings (thought and blog), a spot for...
Sep 18th, 2012
Yipee, I am starting my website
Yipee. I am starting my website. Fo my coaching practice. Cool to be starting the container for presenting my work. I love getting creative, the invisible holding structures, that support our lives started. This container will deepen over time. I’m starting with WordPress. Yes, I’ll need a designer and some back-end help. But I first have to muck-around, sculpt my sense of it. So I am taking an...
Aug 15th, 2012
Sculpting (i.e. writing)
I don’t call it writing, I call it sculpting/expressing. That is what I do. Writing is too linear. What I do, is sculpt my thoughts and experiences, into something. I need to have lots of places to go and to flow, to make it feel natural, and not get lost in rigidity (Rigid work occurs when I try to fit into a structure, rather than flow out of myself). For the latter, I need not only to be myself (obvious...
Jul 16th, 2012
I’m starting writing a book, I think..
In August, I will be starting to write a book: I know it, but I really don’t know how. It will draw on my inner work. Be about change. Probably wont discuss it much while I am working on it. Esp. since I am not planning it – I release the intention, and will see how it unfolds. Its the right time. For my work, myself. Its all a connected. Integrating up a lot. Feels right. Who knows...
Jun 3rd, 2012
Developing Practice
My work is a practice. Its taken me years to realize this, this thing which I have always known. No wonder it’s been a many-stage path to arrive here. No world I have been in, has started from here, in practice, as an end in itself. Its been my own life, coming to terms with my own proclivities — accepting them, loving them, knowing them — for me to arrive here. And there are worlds...
Apr 16th, 2012
Working on a Coaching Logo
Apr 16th, 2012
SLM Logo
Jan 1st, 2012
The Inner Work of SLM
SLM is a spot for creating things, inside –> out. I envision: design, illustration, pencil, writing, embroidery, metal, poetry, paper cuts, photography. I also envision creative process, and artistic method, as I know that I think like an artist (mainly like a sculptor), a systems thinker, and a facilitator. Living more fully (i.e. being in quiet contact with, embodied) as a learner, teacher, mystic,...
