by Renée Silvus
We must be wired to obsess. I’ve been watching myself run through temporary obsessions, and I figure you do too. It makes sense—how else would anything big and cool get done? Art, elaborate buildings, landscaping, engineering jets, biological research, anything...
by Renée Silvus
The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention…the reward for attention is always healing…more than anything else, attention is an act of connection. ~Julia Cameron, The...
by Renée Silvus
I’ve been listening to different perspectives on something many of us share—growth and change happenin’ way too fast. The guy in his longtime second home wants to relax instead of doing chores. Can’t find anyone to hire. The home-builder wrangling subcontractors who...
by Renée Silvus
Lindsey at the McCall Chamber recently texted asking if I would talk about Community Something at the spring breakfast. At first I had a little rush of Really, Me? then a little panic of OMG What Will I Say? followed by Oh, Yes, Of Course! All the exact expression of...
by Renée Silvus
I want to confess how much I don’t know what I’m doing. Yeah, probably not a surprise to you. It became clear (again) after the last Thoreau event~ some of you were even there. The idea seemed pretty cool. I skimmed Walden, the Bhagavad Gita, and parts of the Vishnu...
by Renée Silvus
I recently chucked a story. It was a powerful one too, one that limited me for years. Driving back to McCall in December, I landed in Grand Junction, gateway to red rock country. Hmm. Sunshine in the forecast and the nearby Colorado National Monument has trails...
