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Dialogues from Quarantine~ “Carried On The Wind”

Dialogues from Quarantine~ “Carried On The Wind”

Last evening at dusk, my son Ezra and I took our dog Freya for a walk through our neighborhood. It’s early Spring now, week 4 of Shelter-in-Place, and everywhere we look trees are blossoming. I was walking with Freya on-leash, while Ezra rode his bike slowly...

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Embracing the Unwelcome Guest of Uncertainty

Embracing the Unwelcome Guest of Uncertainty

If you’re anything like I am, then lately there are moments of simple clarity and presence, alongside other moments of feeling consumed and concerned by this rapidly accelerating, multi-layered mayhem. There are moments of deep breath, and moments of trembling. These...

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Taking Our True Seat

Taking Our True Seat

 For a long time I’ve held the phrase “Taking our True Seat” as a celebration of realized sovereignty and inherent inner majesty; a joyous self-claiming. To sit firmly, kindly and elegantly within oneself, allowing all subtle striving and habitual movement outwards to...

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Righteous Self-Love is Worth Aging For!

Righteous Self-Love is Worth Aging For!

A dear Sister asked me recently where I currently, personally stand as a single woman in my forties on the topic of welcoming relational union into my life. I thought it could be fun and useful to share my thoughts  here. I absolutely love conscious partnership and...

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Embracing Our Holy, Imperfect, Astounding Resilience

Embracing Our Holy, Imperfect, Astounding Resilience

At first glance, my closest women friends and I appear to be confident and worldly women; women who enjoy the privilege of education and opportunity; spiritual women whose natural orientation is to love and service. One of us recently produced a brilliant documentary...

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Post-Millenials on The Way to School

This morning as we drove the short distance to my son Ezra’s school, my daughter Arayla (14) asked, “Is it true about the rumors, Mom? The ones that say we could have World War III in 2020?” Her stark words reverberated painfully inside our car. I was quiet, noticing...

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Ezra’s Tiger Medicine Dream

A couple of mornings ago I woke up in a funk of my own grumpiness. A sinus headache I’d had for a few days was proving difficult to shake off. A cold winter greyness was pouring in from the outside, and I sensed in my heart a definite hint of the blues. I was finding...

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“If our love for life remains conditional, based upon us getting our own way or life looking the way we want it to, we remain defended against the slap of life’s ruthless uncertainty.

The degree to which our hearts are guarded and armored against life’s horrors is the exact degree to which we are also closed to its brilliant love, beauty, and joy.”

 

“If we learn how to consciously meet our suffering, then even our suffering is the precise medicine needed to bring us deeper home to life and to love. ” 

“As we learn to open wider to the depth of grief that is here for us—personally, collectively, and globally—we can allow the honest inclusion of our brokenness to bring us home to what’s unbreakable.  ”