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“We will all get hit by coming-of-age moments throughout life.” Joy Harjo, first Native American United States Poet Laureate Recently my husband and I were facing one more medical situation after another. Almost suddenly, it seemed, we started to become aware that some of what had been part of our … Read More

In touch with the vast ocean, I breathe in Smiling with the vast ocean, I breathe out (from Plum Village Deep Relaxation Meditation) Many years ago, when my children were thirteen and ten, we moved together from where they had been born to a new town. I was uprooting my … Read More

1. My stream of consciousness  I flew in to be here I was watering some flowers in the quiet morning When two little birds caught my eye on the empty feeders Looking for what’s left of what is usually full, now eaten Mostly by squirrels First I was simply with … Read More

“Though we shake our heads, admitting on bad days that [life] is all too hard, if some legendary film       director were to offer you such a part, you’d  think it a role of a lifetime —and it is.”  — Mark Nepo In the third grade, I started being the youngest … Read More

“If relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is short, a blink of an eye, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you’re born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly … To be gorgeous, you must first be … Read More

Have you noticed this in the past months: an awareness of feeling less safe, more vulnerable? less patience, more irritability, which is sometimes what comes to the surface when what we are really feeling is not safe? or a generalized, underlying anxiety that runs rampant at unexpected times? If so, … Read More

I recently moved out of an office building in which I had been renting one office or another for over 29 years of a 33 year counseling practice. In the process of the move out, I discovered that I was, as one woman put it, a legend. I guess if … Read More

Yes, those are my feet. And I did wear those two different shoes out of the house to get a haircut. When later in the day, I actually discovered I was wearing two different shoes, by looking at one foot and being surprised that was the shoe I had on, … Read More

What a strange title for this chrysanthemum/poinsettia time of year. What do tulips have to do with November and December, you might wonder, although I did see some at Publix recently. However, I’ve been gone from you a long time this round, and perhaps gone from myself some, which is … Read More

So many thoughts. So much to think about and write about. Finally a place and time to write the thoughts. The ten day old baby is sleeping and so is his mother. His father is getting the car serviced and his sister is at her school. Grandpa is working on … Read More

Fires out of control Destroying people’s homes and lives The loss more than I can count Hundreds dead and missing From the fires and earthquakes and floods And people shot, killed in their synagogue Or their church or the mosque in which they prayed Children shot, killed in their schools…how … Read More

“Peace within; Peace between; Peace among.”   “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” I don’t know where that first quote came from. I have looked and all I found was the title of a Virginia Satir book of the same name. The second quote I found … Read More

Maybe childhood, in the days of Cinderella fantasies, but certainly through high school and college, all I wanted or imagined was an ordinary life. I would get educated, but not too much, get married to the right young man, and would work at something, probably teaching, until we had children, … Read More

Collaboration, More Recalibration, Love and Loyalty…and Meyer Lemons When my children and I moved to Winter Park over thirty years ago, four-way stops were new to me. All the cars stopped at the stop signs and took turns driving through the intersections. Just did it. No whistle blowing, lights flashing, … Read More

Three months ago, I wouldn’t have expected to be writing this today as an end to my hiatus from sharing my thoughts with you. One month ago, I made a different start than what you will read here, but before it could be posted, 17 students and teachers were shot … Read More