Resonance
On the cusp of a “new year,” what shall we plan to create? I have a love-hate relationship with the cheerleadery “new year/new you” notion that’s so rampant. So much promise! So much pressure to do/be...
View ArticleGalloping
As a child, I cultivated an obsession with horses. I read every book written for horse-crazy girls. I imagined myself as a horse (or on the back of one) to pass the time on long car trips. A city kid,...
View ArticleThe Importance of Embracing Earnest
I’d like to praise the amateurs out there. The earnest beginners, the ones who dare to create something they’ve never tried before, who risk falling flat, who most certainly fail. This is all of us, at...
View ArticleBodyMindSpiritEarth
I had a realization at the close of yoga class, while resting in savasana (corpse pose), eyes falling back into their sockets, head heavy on the mat. It’s just this: I have a skull. Oh I knew that of...
View ArticleMorning Incantation
I scribbled out this prayer/wish/invocation in slightly messier form a while ago in my journal. It was early in the morning after a week or two of insomniac nights, and I wrote what I needed, in no...
View ArticleThe Wound
A parable for our times? A few years ago I had a wound that wouldn’t heal. It started as a tiny boil on my shin. I assumed the eruption was a spider bite, covered it with a band-aid and tried to forget...
View ArticleThe Uses of Joy
Yesterday morning, I met my dear neighbor on the sidewalk as she came out of her house to go to work. I was walking my dog home from a little golf course jaunt, in a sunny mood having seen a bit of...
View ArticleGetting and Spending
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” A long time ago, when I worked in a corporation, I kept this William Wordsworth quote on my cubicle wall to remind me of what I knew—that my life was...
View ArticleA Safe Space
When someone says all is lost, do you agree? Do you match her intensity of lament with your own, amping up the despair? Or do you try to talk her out of her fear and angst, knee-jerkily attempting to...
View ArticleHacks for the Holidaze
If you, like me, are a sensitive sort prone to getting off-kilter this time of year (whether that’s about year-end goals, consumption of food/drink/stuff/media, family drama, past losses, expectations...
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