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 I will hold myself open. Where I am closed, I am false. When I am open, I can lead in love.

I am swinging from an almost euphoric feeling of well-being and rightness and gratitude to overwhelm and exhaustion and resentment at all th...

 What are my intentions for myself in 2022? Intention = to stretch toward To feel connected to the church as it stretches To seek out opport...

 April 2019

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...