Rituals 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 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 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.
Read MoreWedding Band
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The loss of innocence and trust hurt worse than the black eye. You can walk away.
Read MoreMagical is the Word
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Words have power. How can a single word become a guiding force for living with intention? My word for 2016 is "magical". What's yours?
Read MoreThat moment when the cake falls over
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You know how it feels. One minute you're enjoying a beautiful wedge of chocolate layer cake with that special someone and the next, it's gone.
Read MoreThe Blue Dish Christmas
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That particular Christmas is the last time our table felt full. The memories are still bittersweet.
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Black and Blue
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Connecting color to our thoughts can bring a memory, an emotion or imagery to life. This poem is written from the power of color and how we might imagine where our loved ones go when they’ve left us here.
Read MoreThe Day the Music Started
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I went into childbirth labor on Halloween night an hour before midnight.
Read MoreAngels, Dragonflies, and Fried Egg Sandwiches
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Quite the diversity of form these angels, dragonflies, and fried egg sandwiches; each is not like the other yet all are welcome to a seat at my comfort table. The metaphysical aspects of life are unknown, unscientific, and unproven. Yet there it is, tickling us with its possibilities of seeing, knowing, feeling the great mystery of the other side.
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