To the remembering
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This month is it. March. The angel-versary, death-versary or fill-in-the-blank-versary. There is no celebrating. Only and ever, the remembering and forgetting again.
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December Sundown
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This time of year so many of us reflect to gain clarity. Something about endings and beginnings that sparks this human behavior. May your new year be clear and bright.
Read MoreRituals Make Us Human
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There is power in the group.
There is power in the solo.
There is power in the yes.
Letters from Stanford
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They say it is never too late to apologize. Will forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance make a difference? We can hope.
Read MoreThe Blueberry Catastrophe
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Whether the forgetting is circumstantial, a lack of mindfulness, or time induced, I don’t like it one bit. Forgetting sucks.
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Unfinishedness
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Did you know unfinishedness is an actual word? Listening to a recent NPR radio broadcast, I thought the speaker made up the word to make their point.
Read MoreA Virtual Manifest-Storm
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What happens when we connect with others near or far, living or dead? Can the connection with others be the hack we've longed for to manifest our dreams?
Read MoreMissing in Action
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
— Albert Camus in “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays"
The Day the Music Stopped
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Standing at her graveside, the elder told the story, in native Anishinaabe tongue, of how the world began. We didn’t know a single word yet understood we were in that place where death and birth meet.
Read MoreTenderly, softly, gently
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My voice went missing the first day of March. The best I can do is a whisper as I wonder why any of my words matter.
Read MoreMy Book of Dreams
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Shortly after my daughter was born, I was so taken in by the miracle of life, I wrote a lengthy composition on our shared birth experience. Writing about her birth and rereading it periodically, I could relive the joy and the possibilities of all that lay ahead.
Read Morethere is a tree beyond my window
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The woman's eye in the tree, watching me write, gives new meaning to "live oak". Seemed like an opportunity to write a poem. Enjoy!
Read MoreWork Your Way Backwards
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Work your way backwards to worry less. Can revisiting our original dreams show us the way forward?
Read MoreI taste the loneliness
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How did she know? Might we each get a glimpse of the inevitable before it happens? Would you want to know?
Read MoreCourageous Captain
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We get to choose the words and behaviors we use to cope when devastation finds us. In this piece, using the found poem poetic form, words from an article on a life well lived are remastered to convey the starkness many people experience.
Read MoreWriting--physical therapy for my soul
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My message is not to convince you everything will eventually be pretty again. Writing is physical therapy for my soul.
Read MoreBeing a dork won't kill you
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Being a dork won't kill your humanness but being an asshole will.
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