Caroline Allen
From my Dissolve Series: Cave Painting III. Almost every evening here in Oregon, a family of deer appears in my front yard. I watch them out my living room windows. "Deer TV". Recently two fawns have joined the full-grown deer, trailing happily behind their mothers. I was walking from the house through the woods to my yurt studio one morning, and on the path was one of the fawns. Its stomach…
For more than two decades I’ve been honing the scheduling around my creative practice. And I’ve been helping book clients and others do the same. As a novelist, visual artist, and coach, I’ve had to learn the magic of transition from helping others to working on my craft. I’ve had to figure out the best schedule for my creative energies on a daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual basis. And as is the…
Painting by Caroline Allen. I was at the beach at Nehalem Bay in Oregon a few months ago. A 5-year-old girl was doing the worm in the sand, her mother standing nearby. "Is that the worm?" I asked her. "Yes!" She wormed some more. She jumped up and ran up to me and my dog Atlas. I held his leash tight. He's twice her size and weight, and I was worried…
How do we heal our relationship with money? I'm not just talking about making more money or acquiring more possessions? I'm talking about healing our integrity with money. I'm talking about healing our relationship with the earth. In my most recently released fourth novel, WATER, I wrote a scene about a woman in a pub burning money. She does this as a joke, as an experiment to see how others will…