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"Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down" 

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have ...

Two girls discover    the secret of life    in a sudden line of    poetry. I who don’t know the    secret wrote    the li...

"It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely...

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked,...

From  THE MOONS OF AUGUST Did she know there was more to life than lions licking the furred ears of lambs, fruit trees dropping their fat ...

It must be transition time again, because here I am, feeling the need to show up again on the page. And finding myself here, finding so ma...

Half-numb, guzzling bourbon and Coke from coffee mugs, our fathers fall in love with their own stories, nuzzling the facts but mauling the t...

[abridged by me. Full version available here .] My writing: hard-boiled. My life: scrambled soft. • The cud of thinking: by th...

He went there to learn how to give a good perm and ended up just crazy about nails so He opened up His own shop. “Nails by Jim” ...

I found myself yesterday thinking this little gem: "I wish I didn't schedule so many activities so that I could have more spac...

My homework in the next week: What imbalance do you find in your relationship? What might that imbalance represent symbolically? What can be...

In my 35th year, the last grandparents' ashes successfully sprinkled in their final resting place, I find myself casting about for how t...

You were hard -- so rigid you never moved an inch from each other fused instead like two trees into one, trunks locked in a death-grip e...

Ten Principles To Live By In Fiercely Complex Times BY Tony Schwartz Wed Jul 13, 2011 If you...

Alan Webber, co-founder of Business Week, wrote that change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of status quo is greater than t...

This is a prayer of invitation. An invitation To you there, with your happiness and your burden, With your hopes and regrets. An invitation ...

Isn’t it always the heart that wants to wash the elephant, begging the body to do it with soap and water, a ladder, hands, in tree shade big...

I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red...

I know I'm in trouble when I don't write in a journal or a blog or random pieces of paper in church. I know I'm in trouble when ...