Falling Leaves: What Are You Losing, In Your Reinvention?

As I am on my porch writing this afternoon, I’m savoring fall at its most magnificent. The contrast of brilliant oranges, yellows, and reds with the deep blue of the sky. The wind, shaking things up and offering a preview of the wildness of the winter season. The variety of songbirds in the yard, including […]

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What Art Teaches Me About Reinvention

One of the huge gifts of my summer sabbatical time was that I had some larger-than-usual blocks of time to devote to my art, creating stained glass mosaics.
This allowed me to relax into more of a leisurely pace with it than my more typical ‘production mode.’
In the different rhythm, I trusted the inherent […]

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Awakening Your Inner Artist to Support You in Your Reinvention

I’m taking a long weekend for an Art Retreat with a girlfriend. This is a good example of how I live my life differently now, post-’big’-reinvention. When I was a Vice President at The First National Bank of Chicago, I didn’t do retreats, let alone art retreats.
Art helps me find my way in reinvention.
Especially in […]

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