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Holistic wellness, spiritual growth, healing, and conscious living, from the Creations community of writers, teachers, and practitioners.
Spooky Halloween Night
by Roberta McQueen, East Islip, NYHalloween party there's the angel and devil seated side by side
Talking Our Walk
by Neil and Andrea GarveyA veteran arrives late and half drunk to a sound healing workshop in East Northport, and stays. What Andrea Garvey witnessed about being heard.
The End. The Beginning … and the Giggles in Between
by Joanne Steenberg, Penobscot, METhree children started giggling in the middle of a funeral, and nobody hushed them. On sorrow and joy held in the same sacred space.
The Unifying Core of the Brain
by Roberto Pinelli, MD, Lugano, SwitzerlandAn eye that turned inward. An ophthalmologist and neuroscientist on the pineal gland's photoreceptors, its ancient reputation, and how modern medicine mislaid it.
The Wound as a Portal
by Gina Goldfeder, Mexico CityA psychologist on the wound as a dish cooked over low heat, why identity clings to it, and the triggers that arrive long after you thought it was buried.
What If Our Problem Isn't What We Believe, But How Firmly We Believe It?
by Joshua Pritikin, Ph.D., White City, ORBeliefs are not load-bearing walls. They are furniture. A quantitative psychologist on doors, walls, and the part of you that is doing the defending.
Who Would I Be Without My Suffering?
by Brenda Shoshanna, New York CityPain is not suffering. A psychologist and Zen practitioner on the secondary benefits of being the one who suffers, and the question that undoes them.
The River Overhead
by Creations CommunityOn September nights the sky over Long Island fills with migrating songbirds. Why they fly in the dark, how to stand outside and hear them, and what to do at dawn.
The Longer Exhale
by Creations CommunityYou cannot slow your heart on command, but you can lengthen a breath out. What the exhale actually does in the body, and how to use it in an ordinary day.
The Peace Offering
by Creations CommunityThe first move after an argument is rarely an apology. It is tea, a joke, a question about the dog. What repair attempts are, and why the receiving is the skill.
The Pantry Week
by Creations CommunitySeven days of cooking from what your kitchen already holds: why full shelves go unseen, what a small constraint gives back, and how to run the week well.
The Morning Stretch
by Creations CommunityThe reach you do before you decide to is one of the body's oldest rituals. What stretching actually changes, why it feels good, and how to give it two minutes.
The Standing Appointment
by Creations CommunityMale friendship rarely dies of conflict. It dies of scheduling. Why one recurring, unglamorous commitment does what good intentions cannot.
The Day You Feel Better
by Creations CommunityThe morning the fever breaks is not the finish line. What convalescence used to mean, what your body is still doing, and how to give recovery its last few days.
The Oldest Beginner in the Room
by Creations CommunityWhy adults quietly stop being new at things, what the gap between your taste and your hands really means, and how to take something up for a season.
A Quieter Place on Your Phone
by Creations CommunityCreations is now an app on iPhone and Android: forty years of writing, searchable, free, and quiet enough to read at night.
The Scrap File
by Creations CommunityCutting gets easier when nothing has to die. Why one unsorted file for everything you cut frees the work, and how to start it with the very next cut.
Sitting in the Driveway
by Creations CommunityThe pause in the parked car is not avoidance. It is the last threshold the day gives you, and a few deliberate minutes there change who walks through the door.
Before You Turn Out the Light
by Creations CommunityAn old nightly practice in plain language: how five minutes of walking back through the day changes what you notice while you are living it.
The Rule You Forgot You Made
by Creations CommunityPersonal rules get made in a moment, for a reason, and then outlive it. How to notice the ones running your days, and how to decide them again on purpose.
The List in Your Head
by Creations CommunityThe running inventory of what a household needs usually lives in one mind. What cognitive labor is, why it exhausts, and how to hand over a whole domain instead of a task.
A Feeling of Collective Effervescence
by Diane Lundegaard, Dix Hills, NYA short story by Diane Lundegaard. Stood up by a friend lost to her phone, a Long Island teenager finds a grandmother, a wild turkey and a walk in the pines instead.
Keeping Score
by Creations CommunityIn many friendships one person always reaches out first. What the private tally actually measures, three honest ways to read it, and how to put it down.
Begin Again
by Creations CommunityThe moment you notice your mind has wandered is not the failure of meditation. It is the repetition itself, and the skill it builds follows you off the cushion.
By Heart
by Creations CommunityWhy a memorized poem stays for decades, how meter and rhyme were built for carrying, and a slow, few-minutes-a-day method for learning one you love.
Lagom: The Swedish Secret to Happiness
by Dr. Beth John, Farmingdale, NYA Long Island doctor on lagom, the Swedish idea of not too little and not too much: why monotasking beats multitasking, and how to step out of the fast lane.
The Visit
by Creations CommunityWhy we avoid visiting the sick and the grieving, what showing up actually does, and how to do it: the specific offer, the short stay, the spoken name.
The Second Answer
by Creations CommunityWhen "what do you do" holds a man's whole identity, the end of work takes more than a paycheck. How to build a second answer before you need it.
The Errand on Foot
by Creations CommunityOne errand a week at walking pace: what the car edits out of a town, and how the slow middle of a small trip quietly gives a neighborhood back.
A Letter You Open in a Year
by Creations CommunityWrite to yourself, seal it, date it a year out. What the writing clarifies now, and what the opening proves later: time is doing something with you.
The Feeling of Being Behind
by Creations CommunityThe hum that says everyone is further along survives every finished list. Where behindness actually comes from, and how deciding what today owes quiets it.
The Smaller Canvas
by Creations CommunityThe blank page stalls; the box begins. Why a chosen limit, two colors, one page, twenty minutes, frees attention and finishes what open freedom stalls.
Saying Grace
by Creations CommunityThe pause before a meal is one of the oldest human practices. What a moment of grace actually does at the table, and how to keep one without borrowing a creed.
When the Oaks Decide
by Creations CommunitySome autumns the oaks drop almost nothing, and some they bury the sidewalk. What a mast year is, how a forest synchronizes one, and what ripples out from an acorn crop.
Looking Far Away
by Creations CommunityYour eyes spend the day at arm's length. What sustained near focus asks of a small tired muscle, why distance is rest, and how to give your gaze a horizon again.
The Quiet House
by Creations CommunityWhen the last child leaves, the house changes texture overnight. What the quiet is made of, why grief and relief share it, and how not to fill it too fast.
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