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“One could say that going through loss is the great awakener. It is a potential opening if you don’t run away from it. What is usually condemned as ‘bad’ by the mind and [...]

I adore this line by the poet Rumi: “Your deepest presence is in every small contraction and expansion, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.” As it relates [...]

“An organized clutter of thoughts consumed me – pulled me through the fog of grief that had settled….and then the memorial was done.  There was nothing left to organize, nothing left to [...]

Our beloved refrigerator leaves us today. I can hear her humming away in the other room – as she has for 25 years – oblivious to her fate. It’s like we’re putting her down. We bought [...]

Letting go. Those two words again. Our daughter. Only child. College. 2,000 miles away. At times this transition feels really huge. When I think there’s no more withdrawal, I’ll hear [...]

How is it possible to allow loss to simply be? To allow that things sometimes don’t add up, make sense, or work out? I’m still in shock and recovery over the fact that my laptop [...]