Chaos and Order In The Physical Space
A personal reflection sparked by a seven-week kitchen renovation on how physical chaos pushes us into survival mode, and why a place of peace and order is essential for growth, creativity, and self-development.
Decluttering Your Time And Attention
A teaching on treating time and attention as our only nonrenewable resources, making activities and people compete for them, and using an 80/20 analysis to reclaim space for self-development and purpose.
Complete Connection – A Roadmap For Self-Development
An introductory roadmap to self-development presenting the author’s model of universal stages of human growth, synthesized from Kegan, Fowler, and others, framed as the guide she wished she had when her own journey began at thirty-one.
Tattoo Design – Freedom From Chaos
A brief note on the original concept design for the author’s tattoo, titled Freedom From Chaos, which was later placed winding up her back and around her arm.
Laundry Day
A lighthearted note on a collection of small objects found in a son’s pockets on laundry day in 2013, which the author found visually fun and full of curiosity.
Wire Flower
A wire sculpture inspired by the artist’s chaos-flower paintings, designed to mount on a wall with its tendrils bent outward as if reaching toward passersby.
Picture Of The Autistic Mind
An art piece created to depict the artist’s own mind, its pockets of order and intellectual curiosity threatened by, or perhaps threatening, a tidal wave of obsessive distraction, capturing the felt experience of an autistic inner world.
Ordered Chaos
A description of an abstract artwork titled Ordered Chaos, offered for sale, inspired by Chaos Theory in mathematics — the artist playing with the idea that chaos can be ordered and generative, and reframing change as not always a bad thing.
Painted In Chaos
A song, with chords and lyrics, about living amid accelerating change — the fear of losing the illusion of choice, and the discovery of space on the page and peace in the change as it burns on.
Evolution of Order To Chaos
A large acrylic-on-canvas painting with a wood frame and movable panels, made 2011-2013, depicting the evolution of order into chaos; the artist considers it a masterwork and offers it for sale.