by Kim Ort | Sep 10, 2015 | Contemplation, Photo By Design 1
The other day my husband and I were visiting Hamilton, Ontario (about an hour’s drive away) for a doctor’s appointment. Even though we grew up nearby, neither of us have spent much time in this city of half a million people, halfway between Niagara Falls...
by Kim Ort | Sep 8, 2015 | Acceptance, Adventures in Seeing, Books, Consolations, Contemplation
This week David Whyte brings a whole new dimension to the word “denial.” He says, Denial is underestimated as a state of being. Denial is an ever present and splendid thing when seen in the light of its merciful and elemental powers to cradle and hold an...
by Kim Ort | Sep 1, 2015 | Adventures in Seeing, Books, Consolations, Contemplation
David Whyte, in his book Consolations, equates crisis to the “dark night of the soul.” This dark night could be more accurately described as the meeting of two immense storm fronts, the squally vulnerable edge between what overwhelms human beings from the...
