This post was originally published April 19, 2015 on and updated on October 19, 2020. Beauty takes time for us to see fully. It always takes longer to hear with the heart, but the song heard there is lasting and precious. ~ Mark Nepo “It broke my heart!” “That went straight to the heart of … Read More
Author: Lisa Lindahl
Both/And…the power of inclusion
This post was originally published March 22, 2015, and updated on October 12, 2020. Practice Operating in the Both/And Universe This Beauty Practice is in response to years of our society operating in an “either/or” mentality. It is one of the major constructs of our automatic pilot reflex. But we do not have to live … Read More
Alone or Surrounded?
The artist Louise Bourgeois famously stated, “You are born alone. You die alone…” And this has been embraced into the lexicon of folk wisdom ever since. She was wrong. Or rather, I disagree. First of all, how can we be born alone when we spend our first 9 months inside our mother’s womb, being so … Read More
Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
No one group — ethnic or otherwise — can have ownership of being in a relationship with Spirit. Wars have been and are being fought because each faction claims, “God is on our side!” Spirit found me years ago, a small child standing outside in awe of the sunlight and breeze, playing tag in the tree … Read More
Overwhelm Antidote
My life has been very full lately. One might say “busy,” but that does not quite capture what I have been experiencing, as a large part of the perceived fullness has centered around choices – choices between opportunities and multiple possibilities. As I weighed the pros and cons of all these possibilities (“Go there!” “Come … Read More