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Assume it’s in the kitchen, under the couch, high in the pine tree out back, behind the paint cans In the garage. Don’t try proving your lov...

Three days into the new year, and despite the lack of adequate light, our white phalaenopsis orchid has eased open a third delicate bloom. P...

It’s when the earth shakes And foundations crumble That our light is called To rise up. It’s when everything falls away And shakes us to the...

Let rain be rain.      Let wind be wind. Let the small stone     be the small stone. May the bird     rest on its branch, the beetle in its ...

Last night I dreamed ten thousand grandmothers from the twelve hundred corners of the earth walked out into the gap one breath deep between...

I want to give myself utterly as the maple that burned and burned for three days without stinting and then in two more dropped off every lea...

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...