early March, Heritage Park, weekday afternoon How can you capture the way the wind sounds the simple tweet of a bird as it flutters by I walk in the woods on a cool afternoon alone but not alone content but not content little pieces of ice on wood chips on the path the path looks different the angle of the… Read more →
When Shaya brought home the wicker basket with the dirt and small wheat berries in it, I wondered where we were going with this. Where did he want to keep it, would he remember to water it and, when he was away from home, would we remember? Would it die like so many plants we forgot to water over the… Read more →
When my daughter says she wants to play a sport, it’s usually followed by a response like this: “I don’t want to be a team or in a camp. I just want to play. You know, like, on my own, for fun. I can learn the game that way.” It frustrates me because I know the importance and value of… Read more →
So many people have a trick. Do this, and you’ll find happiness. Say this mantra, and you’ll find peace. Create this ritual to eliminate negative energy, or that meditation will ground you in confidence. These tricks may work, and they might not. Perhaps it’s a placebo effect into believing that there is some magic spell or action that will make… Read more →
It’s late at night and worries swirl around me like storm clouds – parenting dilemmas, work woes, grief from the ex, mistaken communications. So many things to set straight and so little time. In the morning, I pull angel cards and runes and set time to contemplate and consider. And then I write. What comes out is … time, space,… Read more →
We are more stressed than we realize. This past sunny Saturday, I listened to parenting educator Kim John Payne in his soft-spoken stage voice talk about how the research shows that our stress levels, the constant stress we moan about each evening before we turn to sleep, then toss fitfully on the bed since the stress never fully leaves us.… Read more →
Worry. Anxiety. Work. Overload. Thanks be to God for the arrival of the weekend. When can I take my next vacation? I need a break. Badly. Everything is so HARD. Sound familiar? What a shame. I know it, too, but in rereading some wise words by Swami Parthasarathy recently, I remembered why life can seem so hard. Because we succumb… Read more →