At the end of this day – or this life – the how is what we’ll remember. And it’s what we’ll be remembered for. Not the what. Or the why. Or likely even the when or the where. The how. How we sit with another. How we stand with ourselves. How we talk with another. How we quiet with […]
Well my friend, my computer bit the dust two days ago. I’ve been on borrowed time for a while and, I’m sorry to say, the machine is no more. sniffle. I loved that thing. We wrote many many pages together. (Many.) And apparently I’m one discerning – er, picky – girl when it comes to my […]
It’s humid as a rainforest here on my oak canopied block in North Carolina. I just returned from a walk with a dear neighbor friend and it was heavenly to come home into air conditioning, a technology that I sometimes fight against. But right now, I’m super duper grateful for it. phew. And so, I’d like […]
There is doing. And there is stillness. It all exists at once, in the same moment. Look down and you see one thing, look up and you see another. Look around and you see one thing, look in and you see another. You have the power to pause. You have the strength to stop. You […]
So, we went to the beach a couple of weeks ago. And camped our little booties off in the pop-up tent trailer. (Evidence above.) It was sweaty, salty and super sunny. Sounds spectacular, right? Weirdly, it was. And is. Because the contrast of discomfort to comfort was so stark – as it always is camping […]
When courage bubbles up, I’ve learned something important for me. About me. I must jump on the moment – this very moment of flames jumping skyward – to take action. Because I know that this specific flavor of action for me is a passing wind. It isn’t a constant breeze. And I sit and wonder, have I […]
To: Me From: Me CC: You Dear Me, I have something that I’d like to remind you (me) of. We tend to look back on our lives and see how things worked out. We marvel at how we made it through. Or lament at how crappy it was at the time. Or pine for how […]
I sit and write as my kids play downstairs. That’s bologney. They’re actually on screens watching some movie. Which is a bit of an anomaly mid-day but Mama needs what Mama needs and right now it’s time to write. And what happened just before this, well, that’s a bit of an anomaly too. We planted […]
You hold a most precious resource. It’s not your intelligence. It’s not your time. It’s not your money. It is your attention. Your attention’s a light, a spotlight focused and still, a floodlight wide and deep, a lighthouse swoop and sweep. The spotlight shines on the ever morphing Now. The floodlight shines on the inner and […]
The sun doesn’t set. It disappears as we spin onward and in place, all at once. It rests there, just beyond the horizon, hidden from searching eyes. It melts and spills over creep crawling earth. Coating bay waters, rushing sands, splicing scrub pines. We feel its residual light. We see the shadows left behind. The fuzzy soft […]