by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 27, 2011 | The Universal Flow
Oh yeah. You’ve got to love New York. Today, feeling a little fraught but open, I was in desperate need of doing something very much outside my comfort zone. Just a few days ago my friend Chuck — who is prone to introduce me to some of the grittier,...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 19, 2011 | The Universal Flow
Today’s message in my mailbox courtesy of TUT.com: Some, Nancy, are better loved from a distance. For a while, anyway. And that’s OK. –The Universe
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 18, 2011 | The Universal Flow
Interviewed a column subject on Madison Avenue today. On the way back, felt compelled to walk into the St. Patrick’s Cathedral gift shop and buy a laminated St. Francis of Assisi card with his prayer printed on it. Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 10, 2011 | The Universal Flow
So this morning, as usual, I opened to the day’s reading in Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening. The entry for July 10 is called “The Ring of Safety” and in it he tells a story of watching a yellow jacket while sitting on a bench. He thought of...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 29, 2011 | The Universal Flow
We read Cantos VI through X in The Inferno of Dante (Robert Pinsky translation) for class today. I so enjoyed Dante the poet’s message in Canto VII — how vain worldly goods are and what part Lady Fortune plays in our lives. Here we have Virgil driving the...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 27, 2011 | The Universal Flow
Loved this Pablo Picasso quote from a recent edition of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: “Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which...
