“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” ~ Mary Oliver Shortly before Christmas, on the raw, drizzly night when…
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soul work
Growing older we discover that life doesn’t actually get easier. We just become a bit more skilled at navigating the ups and downs. On good days, I can see the challenges that come my way as invitations to stretch a little, grow a little, learn a little. Viewed this way, just about everything becomes an opportunity for soul work. Read more about what soul work means to me, or browse the archive of stories below.
this is 60
Sixty is not middle-aged. Not even close. Sixty is a reckoning with the truth of mortality, with change, with a…
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why I believe her
I suspect I’m not the only woman who finds herself thinking about truth and sex and high school this week….
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kindness
“The simplest acts of kindness are far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi The…
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you are enough
“Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins.” ~ John Welwood You are enough….
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on the death of a friend
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands…
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