an examined life | High Road Artist

February 2, 2016 by Jeane George Weigel 5 Comments

A Love Letter

… I put some real heart into wondering why I had ever been. And there was nothing. No great thing. No reason at all that I could come up with.

January 28, 2016 by Jeane George Weigel 5 Comments

It’s Kim’s Fault

… and I haven’t even started with Kim’s divine pastries—tarts and scones and cakes and pies and cobblers…

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.