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“Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now.” –Rumi Stillness. What if it could be as simple as turning on a switch inside you? An [...]

A tickle in my throat last week has turned into a full-blown, all-consuming, unrelenting hack-a-thon. Days of waking up like it’s Groundhog Day: in a trash heap of sweat, cough drop wrappers, and [...]

“Let it all go. Show me your spirit.” –Platon, cover photographer for Time magazine While traveling in Italy last fall, my husband captured a rare and unexpected photo of me enjoying [...]

Being gentle sounds so simple on paper, yet I can think of many ways that I can be unconsciously unkind to myself. I even have a name for my not-so-gentle side: “Hilda.” As in [...]

“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 [...]

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” – Anne Lamott It’s springtime: A return to my [...]

January 1. 2010. Ten minutes past midnight. New Year’s Resolutions are not really my thing. My style is more like that of painter: broader brushstrokes, organic and impressionistic. I love [...]

What’s going through your mind? What I mean is… What are you thinking about? Right this second. Do you have 35 things spinning around in your head at the same time? Are you skimming [...]

I love the simplicity of venturing out every week to the local CSA farm where we get our produce. Tromping through the fields to gather fresh flowers, pick raspberries (which never make it past [...]

“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but [...]