Author Archives: seeandconnect
Almost 250 years old – yet, still so young…
I am writing this from a suburb of Chicago, on 4th of July 2025 – USA’s 249th birthday. In the morning, I went to a grocery store to get flowers to gift a friend – it’s her birthday, too. I … Continue reading
Forgiveness
If someone told me this or if I have had this revelation before, I do not recall. Forgiveness is scary and profoundly vulnerable. A couple of weeks I ago I realized forgiveness left me feeling like I was sticking my … Continue reading
What do I want to write today?
With an art-making friend today we talked about discarded patterned cloth scraps from last year hanging in her work-in-progress exhibit. When… How… do scraps become substance?
What do I want to write?
Yesterday, I came back to this site prompted by an artist friend, Shebana Coelho. She suggested I ask myself “What do I want to write?” – do this five days and post the answers. This is post number two. And … Continue reading
Returning to the pages….
Whoa!!! I haven’t been writing into this site since 2016. A couple of hours ago, I was having a sad face thinking I have no easy place to blog…something I’ve thought intermittently in the last couple of years. I mention … Continue reading
A BREAK…
I’m on a break from blogging at this site – I ought to have posted this at the beginning of September 2016. I’ll either return to the this space or re-direct readers to another blog site. Not yet sure of … Continue reading
Stepping into the Question: How do we become our most powerful selves?
Toward the Next Jewish Rebellion. – An article posing this question. Extract from this article: As April Rosenblum writes in her groundbreaking pamphlet: “Attacks come in waves; but each time things calm down and Jews are able to blend in or … Continue reading
#Blacklivesmatter – a collective affirmation?
The USA is pretty well known for its people having passion for the self-help and self-improvement industry. In a way, this isn’t surprising – we are country plagued by depression and anxiety. People are grasping for ways to feel better … Continue reading
The Vagina Monologues of Climate Change
I haven’t posted since January. I spent February and March in the north Chicago suburbs helping my mom through shoulder replacement surgery. While I was there, my dad – very unexpectedly – ended up in hospital. I put blog posting on … Continue reading
I am your crazy
Last Saturday night, I went to a performance of monologues at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In “Bodies of art: women of ink tell their stories,” five women shared stories about their relationship to tattoos. I’m here now … Continue reading
See & Connect 