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.
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My 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 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.
Read MoreNight Crawling on Anywhere Avenue
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What do elder life transitions, closure, and downsizing have in common? They are complex yet melancholic occasions for mindfulness as we cover unfamiliar ground.
Read MoreFeeling Better
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It is a constant push and pull. Feel better but don't forget. Honor our loss while reintegrating. Tending our hearts when grief is a comforting cloak. And all the while wondering what is real.
Read MoreMy Girl Transformed
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Weird and wonderful dreams and their mixed messages can be comforting or bittersweet, frustrating or full of connection and meaning.
Read MoreGrief is Everywhere
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A grief trigger poem I wrote about the things we notice after our loved one is gone.
Read MoreFrom Pine to Palm
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From Pine to Palm is Lena's autobiography written during her House Seminar at Brander Hall, Stanford University, March 2000.
"From the womb of a white mother, came forth an olive skinned infant born into two worlds. . ."
