Tag: Winter

• Musings: Scars, Fragrances, and Memory

  

  Writing about being fitted for a new brace, and reading and responding to, the comments on that post, seems to have opened a doorway on to the immediacy of the past in the present, and to meaning making in the aftermath of intense experience, particularly illness. This morning I awoke early, before there was any…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 31, 2016

  Disability, Psychotherapy

  disability, psychotherapy, Winter

• Turning Within Time

  Winter has settled in; this is the Turning Within Time. I’m sitting at a table with five others. It’s Thursday evening, after a long work day. Tonight is our monthly winter artists/writers group. Everyone at the table is busily creating. Beside me, a writer sits with open notebook, pondering. On my right side a visual…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 8, 2016

  native american, Shamanism, Stories

  Native American, Shamanism, Turning Within Time, Winter

• A Season of Stories

  The first snow has come and gone, a story filled with treacherous roads and power outages. Thursday we drove through snow packed mountains on our way to Thanksgiving dinner, a classic “white knuckle” drive even though the snow had ceased to fall. Sunday marked the beginning of Advent, and this afternoon I put aside work…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 2, 2014

  First Nations, Shamanism, Stories

  Native American, Shamanism, stories, Thanksgiving, Winter

• Cold

  Recovering from surgery provides space to explore my experience of winter.

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 13, 2014

  Nature, Shamanism

  aging, Dreaming, surgery, Winter