Mark Nepo's book, More Together Than Alone, is amazing to me. This book is heart-wrenching, tear-producing and heart-opening, all at the same time. The language is as beautiful as Mark always writes, while the subject can be intensely brutal, chaotic and painful to look at. And yet...I am SO VERY GRATEFUL. I am grateful that my heart is … [Read more...]
A Way to Extend Kindness
A few months before Michael and I began creating table tents with affirmations for wait staff, cashiers and others, the idea had arisen to share uplifting words in the world. At first, we believed that we'd use envelopes that came in the mail from bills we paid by phone. But when the time came to sit down to create them, I felt called to use … [Read more...]
Allowing Our Unique Lives to Speak
Have you seen this movie? I caught The Last Word starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried on Amazon Prime, a film revealing our need to live in ways that matter, in ways uniquely ours to live and in ways that positively impact others. Yes! I agree! Do you? How is life going for you? Are you living in ways that feel good to … [Read more...]
Healing Into our Higher Selves
My phone rings at 11:26 a.m. Where are you? says the caller to pajama-clad me typing away, getting ready for tomorrow’s speaking engagement. Wow! My brain swiftly organizes from chaos to realize this is the person who invited me to give a talk in front of a group of women tomorrow. And she’s on the phone saying the program is today. And … [Read more...]
Living Into New Life in a New Place
My husband and I bought land in the mountains of western North Carolina when our sons were nine and 12, with the idea that we’d move from Ohio when they’d grown. And we did. But before we left northeast Ohio, in the years of high school graduations and traveling to the mountains to choose faucets and tile, I fill pages in my morning journal. I’m … [Read more...]
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