Curious Ground with Harper

29/02/2024

Hi Friends!
✨I just published the FIRST EVER newsletter for the business I started, The Arts of Aging 🥰
Anyone is invited to join the monthly party, a dementia-friendly space for older adults and carepartners who want to include more creativity and connection in their lives.
🍎I will pack it like a little bento box- just enough inspiration to feel satisfied, not stuffed. 🍱

Art for seniors cultivates well-being, connection & engagement. We help senior centers & memory care facilities provide easy art activities to improve engagement & quality of life.

30/04/2020

Parents, we're making it all work as everyone works from home. Inside this article are your best resources for staying rooted in what really matters and taking good care of yourself. Look inside for a free printable guide to keep handy when you're ready to tap out.

I began this article in a spiral notebook because my daughter was in an online meeting with her teacher and 2nd grade classmates, using my…

07/02/2020

Thank you for such a wonderful time in conversation, ! Today at The Mix, we talked all about the tools I give working moms for more peace and less guilt. The questions came pouring in when Elizabeth asked what women wanted to know about creating work life balance, and it shows what a trusted voice Elizabeth is to women in the MKE.
In a little while, I'll get to share that conversation with you!
My takeaway: we become stronger, not weaker, when we ask for help.

21/12/2019

We can all use gentle support and tools for getting the connection and togetherness we really want this holiday season:

There’s no avoiding it: The holidays are here. While this time of year can bring joy, it can also be a source of stress. Between traveling, buying gifts, and preparing large meals, the holidays can affect almost all aspects of our lives, from our wallets to our waistlines. How can we lose the stre...

04/12/2019

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke

22/11/2019

Where women gather, the world changes:

Pat Mitchell, author of “Becoming a Dangerous Woman,” on the power of bringing women together.

21/11/2019

Everybody's got a mountain to climb! So how can I blame them for the way they treat me? Oh, it's easy!!
Read this week's blog post about growing myself up by not playing the blame game:

Martha Creek came to town and I am so grateful again! Martha says that she is,” called to serve those who serve”, and she travels the country in this way- speaking, facilitating and leading worksho…

20/11/2019

Gratitude 19 of 30:
I told the money where to go, and it feels so goooood!🕊
It's been one year since I officially assumed healthcare Power of Attorney for my Dad and the experience has been a powerful teacher. I was laughing the other day with the daughter of my Dad's roommate that they really should have classes in this stuff for people....but that we NEVER would have signed up!🙃 The biggest lesson I've learned is to take sensible action to curb my anxiety and stress. Bills have been a source of stress. Thanks to the help of a dear friend and a great budgeting webinar with , I was able to automate my Dad's bills today! No more energy leaking as stress swirls daily in the back of my mind about what I paid when and to whom...👌 I am SO grateful!

19/11/2019

🐹Our guinea pig, Lucy is so clever! 🐹
Here she is doing her impression of me when I worry that I'm "not doing it right"! I tuck in someplace small and dark- open to snacks but may bite if provoked.
The greatest gift you can give yourself in that cozy, dark place is trust- that you chose the best spot for yourself in this moment. After a pause, you'll know when it's time to proceed and gain wider perspective.
You are equipped for this life you've designed!

17/11/2019

WHEN I AM AMONG TREES by Mary Oliver

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.

I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”

The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,”
they say, “and you, too, have come
into the world to do this, to go easy,
to be filled with light, and to shine.”

16/11/2019

Grateful, grateful, grateful!
I am always nourished in some new surprising way when I am with my mentor and friend, Martha Creek.
I can't wait to spend the weekend integrating new wisdom and then sharing with you this week.

12/11/2019

Blog post up today! I'm asking a big question, and your answer will help many working moms just like you...

This week I want to share an article written for Forbes Magazine and read 1700 times since April. As I prepare to offer Moms' Time Out tonight here in the MKE, this message feels very timely: what …