a meaningful life | High Road Artist

January 23, 2016 by Jeane George Weigel 4 Comments

Changing the Way We See

So whatever it is you may be struggling with, might I suggest you think about Grace’s idea? Find a nourishing way to see it if you can.

January 10, 2016 by Jeane George Weigel 8 Comments

Getting to the Gym

So I’ve written this small piece to you all to enlist your support in getting me down the mountain to start a thing I want DONE without the doing of it. Oh me.

January 7, 2016 by Jeane George Weigel 14 Comments

Breaking Silence

I want to enlist your help: I’d like you to witness my journey back to health. Why, you might be asking, should I give a whit about that? But hear me out.

June 19, 2015 by Jeane George Weigel 7 Comments

Seeking Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico

… she was very simply and honestly recording her experience, unvarnished and raw, unedited. Married in 1898, she must have been growing up in these villages in the 1880’s. I wanted to know what it was really like and she told me in remarkable detail.

May 13, 2015 by Jeane George Weigel 2 Comments

An Eye for Beauty

I recognized the important shift: I am taking care of myself! The extra bits that aren’t absolutely necessary–the things I’d supposed took too much time or money, or both, the things I was not worthy of, I was doing for myself in the simple act of hanging my sheets out to dry.

April 27, 2015 by Jeane George Weigel 8 Comments

Spring Snow

Up here in the mountains of northern New Mexico, in an ancient village that has gone through more than its share of hardships, whose suffering would put mine to shame, two friends spent a day celebrating what it is to live.

April 9, 2015 by Jeane George Weigel 6 Comments

Turning Toward Life

And why should this matter to you? Why am I writing this to you? Because I think we are universal and the struggles I fight are the same as those you do. Because we are human. And there is no escaping it, my friends. We are in this together and whatever any one of us can do to help with that, matters.