by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 17, 2024 | The Community Garden |
I’m thrilled to plant Idun’s beautiful essay and poem in the Community Garden today. As you’ll see from her writing, she’s tapping into the goodness that arrives when we share our creativity with safe others, and how this is one of our most...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 6, 2024 | The Community Garden |
I’m delighted to share this gorgeous essay and poem from a long-time community member, Elizabeth from the UK. She skillfully encapsulates the essence of what it is to be a highly sensitive person in a world of change and loss, and I have chills every time I read...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 2, 2024 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, The Community Garden |
I’m delighted to share these two beautiful poems – and a photo! – from Zoe in London, who is one of our longtime community members. As you’ll see, Zoe has a gift for language, and often draws on her passion for the universe in her writing....
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 14, 2024 | The Community Garden |
I’m excited to plant this poetic wisdom in our community garden from member Simone Rollins about a pathway from stuckness to freedom. As she writes in the introduction to her poem, which can serve as a mantra when we forget the simple yet most powerful tool of...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 24, 2023 | The Community Garden |
It is with great joy that I share this writing and poem from one of our long-term community members, George Lamb. Not much introduction is needed, for as you’ll quickly learn as you read her writing and take in her beautiful photography, George is a shining gem:...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 6, 2023 | The Community Garden |
Autumn Anxiety It might seem a bit early to talk about autumn, but highly sensitive people feel the turn of the seasons during these first days of August, and it can often trigger Autumn Anxiety. As I shared on Instagram recently: Autumn is the season of nostalgia....
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 25, 2023 | The Community Garden |
I’m very excited to plant this week’s flower in the Community Garden: a beautiful prose/poem by Emily Marczak called “Puddle Jumping.” Emily sent this poem six days before her wedding when, as she said, she “had been grieving / reflecting...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 11, 2023 | The Community Garden |
I have been thinking a lot about you all lately: how I can better connect, what I would like to offer next, and different ways to utilize this space. There are some things I know: less screens; more contact in person. Less teaching; more sharing. Less general; more...