by Christy Harden | Feb 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Revealing the lie of the separate self. With an afternoon alone yesterday, I found myself coming back to an old favorite pastime—watching YouTube documentaries about DID (dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder). I gravitate to...
by Christy Harden | Feb 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am in love again. This time with Joan Didion’s Blue Nights. Not so much with the story (though it is achingly, eerily beautiful), but with her words, with the cadences, patterns, circles, the flow of the folding, unfolding, enfolding. This “in love with...
by Christy Harden | Jul 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
We serve the world and ourselves best when we do what we love; when we live in synch with our souls. No greater energizer or stress relief exists than to be doing what makes your heart sing. When you’re inspired, you’re inspiRING, and to inspire someone to...
by Christy Harden | Apr 10, 2020 | Live Love & BU, Uncategorized
It’s Spring again and my lovely dovey couple are back, chibbering to each other on my windowsill, alighting on the open shower window frame, and peering sideways at me through my living room window, about 6 inches from my desk, twiddling twigs in their beaks. I...
by Christy Harden | Mar 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m sitting in a coffee shop with my laptop. Just me. And my laptop. This is the first time I’ve done this in…so so long. My phone’s on 1% and, aimless and feeling a bit lost, I spend that 1% looking at my old pics. And the weirdest thing...
by Christy Harden | Sep 20, 2012 | The Examined Life, Uncategorized
Do What You Love. How many times have you heard that directive?! But “do what you love” can mean so much more, and at the same time can be so much simpler than the current Self-Help-Speak definition, namely: engaging in The One Activity we feel is our...
