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At four o’clock it’s dark. Today, looking out through dusk at three gray women in stretch slacks chatting in front of the post office, their...

"If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant." from " Taking Down the Tree "

(A fortune cookie) Ominous inscrutable Chinese news to get just before Christmas, considering my reasonable health, marriage spicy as moo-go...

for Ros Krauss Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where ...

  12/12/20021 Be with yourself in your feelings. Empathy for yourself. Mindful feeling. Experience the moment. Be here with now. If we are h...

 Sermon by the Rev. Angela Herrera on 12/5/2021 The man and the tigers and the strawberries The study in 2020 of happiness among different a...

“Eres mi tocayo“  Michaela/Mikayla/Michayla/Mikaela/Mikayla Michelle

Brene Brown Dare to Lead podcast with Dr. Susan David on the Danger of Toxic Positivity, Part 2 Between what's happened and my response ...

"You must praise the mutilated world...." —Adam Zagajewski, trans. Clare Cavanagh      It felt like being on the moon, walking on ...

 What am I good at? What do I want to do? What don't I want to do? I'm at the juncture where I could do multiple things, but in some...

 Just when you think you're out... they pull you back in. They offered me the promotion I wanted and assured me I had support. Maybe I d...

 After 10 years, I decided tonight to change jobs.  What I do is a big part - perhaps too big a part - of who I am. So this change is monume...

I've been consuming Brene Brown podcasts, my new favorite source for soul searching epiphanies, but also just daily life hacks about how...

 Haunting...

 Boots Cooper (as told by Molly Ivans):  "There are some things that will scare you so bad, you'll hurt yourself." The Rev. An...

Everything becomes dust eventually blows away, even our own, constantly adrift, traveling over continents rendering sunsets with colors to i...

 This is possibly the best thing ever. Why did I not see this before????

“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired!”  She sat across the desk from me, squirming.  It was stifling. My suite runs hot  but most day...

South East, reprise Water Birds (from album All the Time)

Make me laugh over coffee,  make it a double, make it frothy  so it seethes in our delight.  Make my cup overflow  with your small happiness...