Writings

“Shattered”—have we found the new normal?!

This expression shows up in my office and in conversations, day after day. Yes. We are shattering and this goes for you, me and us, for them, for the collective, for systems, for structures…we are shattering. The beauty in this, from this place of death or utter brokenness, is that NOW we can re-form ourselves, our communities, our cultures. Doesn’t this almost feel like cause for celebration?! WHOA! Broken? Great, must be time to RE-FORM…

Solstice Book Reads

In honor of Solstice and the season of reading, here are not one but 2 books I pray you might pick up…I think you know I am a book obsessed human. Books have saved my life, and still the right book lands in my hand at the exact right moment time after time. I am always looking for and touched by the ways Life conspires to keep us nourished in just the right ways…those synchronistic

Winter Solstice 2021

Oh how bowing to the darkest moment feels so necessary this year. Bowing to the darkness and bowing to the darkness and bowing to the darkness…This season I am allowing myself to belong to the darkness… granting myself time in the pre-dawn dark to fully descend and imagine, maybe remember, places where the only light comes from the creatures who have adapted and create their own luminescence… Creating our own luminescence only comes from staying

What is it to be human?

How, as humans, do we become more, or less human? Is this possible? Aren’t we just ourselves? You too must be hearing the “finding/losing/remembering our humanity”-speak…and concerningly, it has basis doesn’t it? Basic kindness, care, respect seem to be elusive still at times…and story after story of our neighbors, friends and kin being mistreated, treated as less than human– painful, confusing– it can leave us feeling helpless and hopeless can’t it? Sometimes on the carpet

Martin Marten

My love affair with Brian Doyle continues…at 1st glance this month’s book recommendation might seem pedantic; a book about the marten? A kids book? NOPE. Martin Marten is a gorgeous soliloquy about love and life. A deep look at our place in the web, at the real meaning of community…and also a dive into the inquiry, dear to my heart, one I am having on repeat with couples these days…how do we love, how do

Be Safe

What do we mean, really, with our new COVID-induced catch phrase “stay safe.”? Keeping it real folks: You are not safe. Stay safe is what I want to call a “sick” phrase (illuminating the illness in our culture). Staying safe, valuing our lives at all costs, needs to stop being our primary drive as a culture. Consider exploring/adopting safe enough as a reasonable baseline. Maybe instead of protecting the ME and our specific WE’s, we could