The following comes to us from a Vermont poet I had the pleasure of meeting years ago, first through a mutual friend and then again when she taught at the Green Mountain Writers’ Conference, a yearly conference I often attend to keep my writing tools sharpened and creative juices flowing. I share Ruth’s poem here … Read More
“Laughter is the best medicine.” ~Anonymous This post was originally published on May 31, 2015, and updated on November 2, 2020. Whaddaya think? Are we born with it, or can a sense of humor be cultivated? I don’t know. But I do think that paradox, in general, is the cosmos laughing. Humor … Read More
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
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
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
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