by Tessa Alburn | Feb 15, 2021 | Blog
Facebook Pinterest Among the things that have vanished in the course of this free-form pandemic year is our sense of structure: time has lost all meaning, we joke, indicating that ten in the morning may as well be four in the afternoon; any given Saturday a Tuesday;...
by Tessa Alburn | Jan 28, 2021 | Blog
Are you creative? The answer to that question is always yes, because creativity is an inherent human trait, like handedness, and you are a creative being simply by having been born into this life. The more important question is this: are you able to first access, and...
by Tessa Alburn | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog
By this point in January, we have just come to the end of one of our biggest shared cultural experiences, the gifting season. The landscape of these weeks was populated with benign and generous figures, Father Christmas, La Befana, the Magi (and those gift-givers who...
by Reviews | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog
“The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” ~~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables By astronomical reckoning, our days have been getting longer for a week and some days now; the change in light is hard to see, as the sunlight hours remain the...
by Tessa Alburn | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog
Intercalary days are born because the way we keep time, and the way the Universe around us keeps time, aren’t a perfect fit. A year around the sun isn’t quite the same as a year marked off a calendar; trying to square the solar year and the lunar year leaves us even...
by Tessa Alburn | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog
In early December, we are still in autumn but the season has quieted, its brilliance subsided, and night has been dominant for weeks. This time can be a difficult stretch: internally, we may find ourselves feeling depressed, depleted; we sink into the darkness the way...
