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We give thanks. We give thanks for hope, and that change is possible. We give thanks for this moment, and for our lives. We give thanks for ...

  (Title taken from the first line from Leonard Cohen’s song, Anthem) “Let this darkness be a bell tower / and you the bell. As you ring, /w...

  I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding expanse...

once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of sn...

 Modified from: "Just Like Me Compassion Practice"  Become aware that there is a person in front of you... A fellow human being ju...

We are in the middle of a house renovation to make our master bedroom and bathroom bigger and add a sunroom (read: yoga space!).  That's...

On the morning after Trump was elected President for the second time, I am trying to find my courage and resolve.  I will work to understand...

 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...