Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Me talkin to myself

  • A deal with yourself

    My longtime friend and artist Stephanie Barrow spent last year making videos about making art. She made a commitment to herself to do it and she followed through. I love that. Today she posted a video about what she learned from a year of meeting that personal commitment. Besides the window into her vibrant art…

  • In praise of daydreaming

    …or why I love the beach. Watching the endless variety and shape of crashing waves. Pondering how the ocean hurls massive tree trunks well beyond the highwater mark. Discovering the strange gray rock shot through with thin white in the shape of a heart. Oh, wait is that a whale spouting? Finding just the right…

  • The dragon surveys January

    I had the pleasure of dancing last summer with Nia instructor Britta von Tagen. She co-taught a white belt training in Pleasant Hill with Kellie Chambers and dropped in to the Just Move Studio for some community dance sessions. Her energy, precision and a kind of fierceness were exciting and maybe a tad scary for…