crisis to confidence
I was corresponding recently with a far away friend --- a dear fellow creative and writer who once won my heart with a sonnet. Our paths...
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Probing at meaning
Anne Catlin
- Nov 8, 2023
- 1 min
best sunset
Best sunset ritual — shoreline poke picnics. Each of us has our own cup of rice and packet of roasted nori (seaweed) to keep the peace....
Anne Catlin
- Oct 30, 2023
- 2 min
fall colors
Kansas City at dusk, seen from the sky, is a darker shade of muted green. Ag. land with patches of dark, mirrored water, a snaking river...
Anne Catlin
- Sep 8, 2023
- 2 min
last night at 41, a tub lecture
I'm eating Thai food in the tub, courtesy of bffs. We've known each other since high school and are basically the same, except with...
Anne Catlin
- Sep 7, 2023
- 2 min
big and small
The ocean bears gifts. If we are very lucky, it may bring a visit from something beautiful and wildly alive. Almost always, it will bring...
Anne Catlin
- Jun 24, 2023
- 1 min
homage to the clawfoot tub
For years there were no baths — 6 years in a warehouse with an outdoor shower, nextdoor to a coffee roaster. A hand carved slab of...
Anne Catlin
- May 18, 2023
- 5 min
duality and God's humor as electric shock
- photo credit: Independent - Stromae:Success is a Gift and a Handicap Collect call from the Pitchess Detention Center - 7 cents per...
Anne Catlin
- Apr 8, 2023
- 3 min
embrace the wildness
Nurturing Creativity and Individuality in Children and Ourselves
Anne Catlin
- Feb 3, 2023
- 1 min
sea as metaphor
The sea, like life and god, bears gifts — no matter how we meet it.
Anne Catlin
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
the final love letter
This is an old(er) entry that, at the time, felt too personal to post. Now it's maybe like a poem or a prayer, beautiful in the weight it...
Anne Catlin
- Dec 8, 2022
- 4 min
then vs now: a new kind of balance
At times in life, I’ve felt like too much and not enough – something I suspected was a personal failing – until I learned how many other...
Anne Catlin
- Aug 25, 2022
- 1 min
the mystery of being
Observations in the ways we exist - No.1 “Something good will come of this. Pay attention. There’s something inside of you that can’t be...
Anne Catlin
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min
revisiting the artists way
I’ve always envied people at the beach, tucked into a patch of shade with a good book and a hammock. After raising kids for 23 years,...
Anne Catlin
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
welcome 2021
Last apocalyptic sunset of 2020, the sun melting into the vog along the horizon. 2020 ended with a bang, planets crossing in the final...
Anne Catlin
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
new normal
Hawai’i statewide “stay at home” order goes into effect in an hour. This is a weird feeling, this global experience, the ease at which...
Anne Catlin
- Jan 9, 2020
- 1 min
Tabloids and Tito’s (Venice: 1)
We're loosely enjoying the Golden Globes tabloids. Celebrity gossip over Tito’s tostadas or Campos burritos and a raucous game of Gin...
Anne Catlin
- Dec 24, 2019
- 3 min
beginnings and endings
Swimming at night approaches some deep, instinctual fears for nearly everyone. I like meeting people in this vulnerability.
Anne Catlin
- Dec 23, 2019
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Anne Catlin
- Dec 15, 2019
- 1 min
spark
The human experience is fundamentally messy. Often its all just stumbling through this life thing trying to hold it all together....
Anne Catlin
- Dec 4, 2019
- 3 min
aspiring salty
I just picked up these new work shorts but may need to stick to swim leggings. It’s hard to capture the true beauty of the leopard spot...
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