In my thirties, I recall saying, “Wait. What? I don’t get it. I should get it. When I was fourteen, one of my brothers died soon after birth. When I was twenty-one, my forty-one-year-old aunt died. People die. Grandparents die, but not my grandfather.” Pepere Lebel loved me as one of those people the experts… Continue Reading
To Persevere. To Celebrate. To Play. To Love. To Share. To Adventure. To Relax. These are some of the chapter titles in Grandkids as Gurus: Lessons for Grownups. which let us know what children can teach us. I’m excited to say that my third book, Grandkids as Gurus: Lessons for Grownups is now available at local bookstores, through… Continue Reading
“Once upon a time, when women were birds,there was the simple understanding thatto sing at dawn and to sing at duskwas to heal the world through joy.The birds still rememberwhat we have forgotten,that the world is meant to be celebrated.”Terry Tempest Williams When I read this, I thought, joy? Are you kidding, with a global… Continue Reading
I remember the Indigo Girls’ song with its lines, “Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable but lightness has a call that’s hard to hear.” I wonder if what we hear is a matter of attention. I wonder if my focus, if our focus, gets pulled to the darkness, fed by the 24-hour news cycle; these… Continue Reading
In 1980, in a yoga class, on my jade green mat, in a softly lit studio with gentle music playing, I found a way to quiet, even with a loud mind whirling like a ceiling fan, and living in a country which thundered and raged like now. The teacher said, “Gradually something will ground you… Continue Reading
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