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Do you find yourself wakeful and worrying at night when you want to be sleeping?  I have heard a variation of stories from many people who lie awake at night tossing and turning, both physically and mentally, concerned about some work situation or a problem to be solved, whether family … Read More

February, often thought of as the month for love, seems like a good time for some Rumi quotes. You might give yourself the gift of each quote by taking the time to sink into it as you read, or giving the quote the space to sink into you. Then breathe … Read More

I have considered and wondered and written about love for most of my life, I think. The first love I consciously thought about was romantic, which to me meant sacrifice and loss as the movies from the post-World War II war era showed us, and as was true for my … Read More

Eyes still closed Barely re-entering awareness from a nap I am floating up More like surfacing Slowly From the deep deep Wondering in a mere moment or two Whether to continue up To full consciousness Or to let go more Enjoying Sinking back downward Downward Floating downward languidly To the … Read More

January. The start of a new year. And also the month in which I was born. I’ve always liked that, having my birthday on the first month of the year. When I was a child, a January birthday meant that if I hadn’t received something I wanted for Christmas, I … Read More

I love the sound of the ticking clock in the quiet house I hear it saying “all is well, all is well, all is well.” Sending its message through the pleasantly empty rooms In a way that immediately quiets my mind. That has been true for me for twenty-seven years … Read More

I have been struggling to write this on time for it to post on its scheduled date of December 1. I have made a few starts on paper that seem to go nowhere and a few more going on in my head as thoughts come to me and then float … Read More

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching                 and painting, Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing; And grace before I dip the … Read More

Yesterday as I walked through the living room, I passed the bowl of apples on the small round side table next to my chair. I caught the scent of the apples, Granny Smiths and Lady Pinks, which sometimes happens, and looking back at them, after a quick mental check of … Read More

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere                                —Warsan Shire   Heart breaking, I wondered, what can I do? And the answer came Love deeper, love more Consciously Focused Committed … Read More

There’s a Nightmare in My Closet is the name of a children’s book that I have read since my own now adult children were very young. It’s about the phenomenon that we have seen in children or experienced ourselves as children when we awakened from a bad dream and were … Read More

This is the greatest gift: to choose a life one can admire oneself for living. — Mary Gordon, The Company of Women. Have you chosen a life that you can admire yourself for living? Do you even have the sense that you’ve chosen your life at all? I keep thinking about that … Read More

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov

I am here again. The dancing happy version of myself who is writing on this laptop in my office during the time between appointments. I am sitting right here relatively calmly, pleased that I brought the laptop and carried it up the two flights of stairs to my office even … Read More

Many years ago when I was a young bride, I taught music at an elementary school.  My office was in the teachers’ lounge, and each morning one of the third grade teachers arrived, just barely in time and of breath.  Today I can still see her standing in front of … Read More