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This Month's Goody – April

March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-practically mperfect-] That Brilliant Flash of…Consistency? by Nancy S.M. Waldman You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche said that and I – with quite a bit of creative chaos in my life – completely understand what he means. Chaos – if we tone it down to a [...]

Feb

10

You, Me and Leonardo da Vinci

February 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-essay, practically mperfect-] by guest contributor, Karen Hatzigeorgiou Are you one of those types of people who always has several different projects going at the same time? I know I am. Right now I have five unfinished altered books and four collages in varying stages of completion. I’m in the middle of reading two different [...]

Feb

10

Collecting Dust

February 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-practically mperfect, collecting-] by Nancy S.M. Waldman You might think this essay will be about how to keep one’s collections free of dust. It’s not. While I could easily and truthfully admit to hating to dust my various collections (and everything else), what I have to confess goes much deeper. I’m the one who’s been [...]

Feb

5

The Healing Journal

February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-journaling-] by Nancy S. M. Waldman ‘journals’ © 06-07 nancy waldman Since 1999, when the Journal of the American Medical Association came out with the positive findings of a small study that looked at the therapeutic benefits of writing about one’s feelings, the field of therapeutic writing has spread into all aspects of physical and [...]

Feb

5

Mind the Zwischenraum

February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

[-essay-] by Nancy S.M. Waldman This German word – zwischenraum – comes back to me from the past. I first heard it over 25 years ago soon after the funeral of my father. Grief is one of those painful but natural and necessary pauses in our lives. The kind of “time-out” that our minds tend [...]