After Inconceivable Loss
"How do we love what remains?" - Sara Nesson, in conversation - A sunset weeps, and the world is jolted once again into acknowledging the...
Slow and Steady Mindfulness
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. Grace is the glue.” - Eugene O’Neill – For Martha and Bonnie Last summer the Santa Catalina...
Passing Love Forward
"A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts." - Pat Conroy - While looking through the perfume bottles I inherited from my mother,...
Connected to Wonder
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” - John Muir - It was Thanksgiving...
Falling Through to Calm
“the more I wear this story of myself, the more it grows thin, ravels, a sweater filled with holes— I fall through them.” - Rosemerry...
On the Road with Calm
"We shape our dwellings and afterward, our dwellings shape us." - Winston Churchill - Ah! What weight and meaning we give to our homes....
Mystics, Light, and Stories Hidden in the Dark
“A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault...
The Art of Choosing
When choosing becomes imminent—be it a seemingly large or small choice—quietly sitting for a while with all of the options allows the...
The Sweet Wildness of Road Trips: Part 3
I’ve been playing. Being around children helps. At the pool with family, I joyfully attempted (and failed) to swim along the bottom of...
Living the Answer
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are...
