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 Life has gotten busy again. Teaching, working, mothering, and churching. I've said yes to things that serve me or that I can serve thro...

In the spirit of trusting the great AI in the sky, I typed in "does life get better" into Google search bar, and the first respons...

 https://connectedfamilies.org/equipping-kids-calm-self-regulation/ Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and manage your “arousal stat...

"[I]n October, Kelly Jensen asked all of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates about their favorite books. Harris, she notes, wa...

Website Podcast / YouTube Brene Brown - Unlocking Us Podcast Strategies when you are feeling overwhelmed / out of control (emotion regulatio...

Whenever I spend the day crying, my friends tell me I look high. Good grief, they finally understand me. Even when the arena is empty, I t...

If we could, like the trees, practice dying, do it every year just as something we do— like going on vacation or celebrating birthdays, it w...

 Today's sermon is about reincarnation, and it's got me thinking about the limits of redefining oneself, starting a new chapter, and...

Trying to have patience with my grumpy set point. I have so much to be grateful for, so I bristle at myself when I start the day - pretty mu...

 I've been lucky to have flying dreams on regular rotation.  Most are joyful - flying solves a problem or feels miraculous and so right....

Hard to let love in, to do its work on you, healing backward and forward It’s ok to go slow in your letting go In letting your arms fall to ...

Tennis and that feeling of play. Joy in what my body can do. Yoga and that feeling of grounding and reaching that glories in the biggest spa...

See the flowers, so faithful to Earth. We know their fate because we share it. Were they to grieve for their wilting, that grief would be ou...

 The sermon today was about how to take the everyday and turn it into a moment of meaning, when the moment IS the meaning. V.B. Price, in Ru...

The whole fam went to see Gregory Alan Isakov at the Bridge in Santa Fe. We saw Martin and Julie Heinrich and our neighbors! San Luis Berth ...

Umea and I went to this concert at the Kiva Auditorium, and it was magical. I ugly cried at just how beautiful the music was. Setlist: Befor...

  Newsweek Article - March 19, 2024 [Paraphrased] 1. Get out in nature. 2. Keep a determination mindset. We can do hard things. Resilience ...

What a tough day. I manage a Division of about 30 people in 4 teams. One of our younger team members -- a really good and smart person -- le...

and it is good, a way of letting life out of the box, uncapping the bottle to let the effervescence gush through the narrow, usually constri...

Derek Mahon, from Selected Poems How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflec...