How to dance the dance of life in the midst of chaos

March 31, 2025
Seems crazy, doesn't it? To think of dancing anything, including the dance of life, while so much around us is being demolished. When many of us can feel only fear....

Random thoughts and potpourri

March 24, 2025
In and out. We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch. My first thought when I read this was that the...

How to trust the Universe

March 18, 2025
That's actually a question. Because I don't know how to trust the Universe. I'm not a particularly trusting person. Yep. It's true. I have always been the...

Why I love digging into the past

March 11, 2025
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  ~Joan Didion A while ago,...

How do you mend a broken heart?

February 18, 2025
"Love even when it means searching for your heart knowing it may cower and can be broken sometimes feeling it will mend. Knowing it will mend." My...

The most important (and your final) act of kindness

July 23, 2024
It's my birthday and I can't think of any post more important today than one that promotes helping another have a rebirth. The gift of life. That is....becoming...

Don’t reject, inspect!

June 13, 2024
I'm always shocked when people with scientific backgrounds reject non-traditional thought out of hand. "No way!" they insist. "The science isn't there!" Well,...

How powerful is prayer?

June 10, 2024
There's a fairly visible pastor in my social media feeds. Someone I met almost 20 years ago in the course of my job. I was a bit...judgmental...about him and I...

When dreams die

May 13, 2024
Pardon me, while I grab a tissue to wipe away tears. A lovely couple who have cared for our pups during vacations for more than a decade are leaving the U.S. to...

End-of-life: an unavoidable topic

March 27, 2024
Let's face it: no one likes to consider their death.  Few things are as sensitive (and downright scary) to some as discussions with loved ones about end-of-life...

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