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Milestones
Happy Sunday morning! This one was written a while ago, but today, I dedicate it to our friends, Bryan and Petra, Josephine and Russ, who lost their dear, kind, beautiful mother, Diana, this past week... Read More
Birthday Girl
It’s been 64 years now, but still the same feeling. Birthday Girl Fifty-eight years ago today, my mother gave birth for the tenth time. I do not know if it was day or night, a long labor or shor... Read More
Resilience
Resilience We humans- we were made to adapt. Our very survival depends on it. Sure, we’d rather not. We resist, we deny, we shake our fist. We feel overwhelmed by the impossible magnitude. But slowl... Read More
Toward Love
Toward Love “The heart beneath is teaching to the broken heart above.” Leonard Cohen Here you are at this precise time, in this exact place, at this very age, the culmination of so much. Every mom... Read More
Early March, Five am
Early March, Five am Two cardinals take up a call and response this morning, one trilling up, the other down. They are calling us awake from the night, from the long winter when they were mostly quiet... Read More
Essence Song
Essence Song While the chaos of the world spins out of control, encroaching, threatening, step back for a moment and listen. Beneath the noise, there is a familiar wordless melody calling to you. It i... Read More
Field Notes
Field Notes Psychology textbooks seem to draw a distinct line between middle and late adulthood and so I imagined that once my child-rearing days were over, once career ambitions waned, I’d settle i... Read More
Mid-February
Mid-February Look at the tree. Just by growing, by reaching toward the Light, it provides so much- breath and beauty, shade and haven, nourishment. It doesn’t punish itself, but endures what must be... Read More
Other People
Other People Of course, the big lessons came from family members, teachers, the major players in your life. But there were other, less obvious people, too. You know who they were- a neighbor whose kid... Read More
Beyond Memory
Beyond Memory Childhood was fleeting compared to the decades and phases of adulthood, still ongoing. So long ago now, I can barely remember its particulars, only its essence, only brief images that em... Read More
A Personal History of Chores
A Personal History Of Chores When I first came into the world, my needs were met by others and when they weren’t, I simply screamed. Sadly, I had no appreciation of my privileged status. Soon enough... Read More