April 10, 2013
Dear Friends,
After months of retreat from my more public presence, I'm launching my new website, Poetic Justice, which is live today.
Visit my new site at:
http://www.poetic-justice.ca/home
My contributions to the new site will be more intermittent that the last two years here, as I'm still in a more internal space and going through lots of changes in my own process, as well as working/incubating on a couple larger writing projects (and working 11 hour days at my new teaching job in Seoul!). But Poetic Justice site will be my new public face for the future, and my this site will be coming down in the next few months.
I will contribute blogs there and I am aimed to do a new dialogue in May, and will contribute dialogues with provoking thought leaders now and then throughout the year.
I was aiming for a more sleek and aesthetically simple site... also one that is a bit more focused towards my future goals and my own maturing process. I also wanted to include more photos from my travels.
I've also set up a new Twitter account. So if you would like to stay in touch on my future writing, travels and dialogues, feel free to follow me here.
Look forward to "seeing" you over at the new site.
With love,
Vanessa
Posted by Vanessa Fisher.
March 25, 2013
"Learn the rules like a pro... so you can break them like an artist..."
~Pablo Picasso
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Posted by Vanessa Fisher.
February 26, 2013
The last couple months have been a wild ride. It seemed time to share an update.
I've been off of social media sites (facebook, twitter, google+), going on two months now. I must say I'm loving it. I recommend a short or extended break from social media for anyone. My life has become more quiet, and my attention and energies have really focused in a new way, which has allowed me to attend to the deeper internal and external changes unfolding in my life. I'll likely head back onto s... Continue reading...
Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Saudi Arabia
January 31, 2013
Dear Friends and Readers,
A month ago, I chose to close down my facebook, google + and twitter accounts.
I didn’t say anything publicly about closing my social media accounts because it didn't seem especially pertinent to announce at the time. Since then, though, I've had some queries from people as to my reason for leaving social media space, so I thought I’d just take a few moments to speak to why I've closed down my accounts temporarily.
First of all, I do intend to return back to soci... Continue reading...
Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Uncategorized Insights
January 26, 2013
This is one of the most moving talks I've ever seen about beauty and the power of image. I have so much respect for Cameron Russell's honesty, and her amazingly deep beauty and care.
Thanks to my friend Rebecca Bailin for sending this to me.
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Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Women's Leadership
January 10, 2013
They Journey
~by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their... Continue reading...
Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Poetry
January 2, 2013
Today, I was interviewed by Vancouver film-maker, Cindy Lou Griffith, who runs and co-hosts a weekly radio program in Canada called Stark Raven Radio. My interview took place within the first half of the radio show, framed within the segment called "Deconstructing Psychiatry."
Download this Dialogue as an MP3
In this 30 minute segment, Cindy Lou interviews me on my own views regarding madness, trauma, darkness, psychiatry, psych wards, as well as how we might expand on c... Continue reading...
Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Women's Leadership
December 26, 2012
As the year 2012 comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to share a poem from one of my favorite 13th Century Sufi poets, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī. As well as a song from one of my favorite artists, Annie Lennox--The Gift.
May we all bring in 2013 with a quiet ferocity that lifts the veils on our lives and draws us a step, or a leap, closer to alignment with the burning desire of our own greatest aspirations.
With love,
Vanessa
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Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Poetry
November 21, 2012
Today, I was interviewed by Myra Jackson on Gaiafield Radio.
You can listen to the interview here.
In this 60 minute interview, we start with an intimate discussion of my own life journey, and explore how my formative experiences and my journey as a global nomad have shaped my unique perspective on spirituality and social transformation.
We cover an array of critical topics including: the importance of travel and gaining global perspective, the integration of pol... Continue reading...
Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Women's Leadership
October 17, 2012
Surrender, by Henry Asencio
On my last day in Russia...
I suddenly realized that my soul had been searching relentlessly, for lifetimes, for someone who could meet me at the burning edges of my own deepest fire, ferocity, intensity and creativity, without turning away.
A wave of ancient grief imploded within my being--
She wrapped my grief in the cloak of her silence and refused to turn away until I surrendered, full-bodied, to being seen, held, and burned up ent... Continue reading...
Posted by Vanessa Fisher. Posted In : Russia
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