“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
“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