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Would you rather?

 I am writing you, after spending an extended weekend, with some of the most important women I have in my life. These women (me included) play wholeheartedly within the range of friendship – meaning – we love big, we hold each other up, we push a little, we…

The Labyrinth

A few days after Thanksgiving, I felt a knock on the door to my heart, I opened the door, and there stood a stranger.  I invited this said stranger into my house and realized that the stranger wasn’t strange at all, but quite familiar – it was my…

So Hum

So Hum The definition of a mantra in Sanskrit is combination of two words, manas (mind) and tra (tool), literally translating as “a tool for the mind”. It is a word or sound repeated again and again to help aid in meditation. A mantra can be anything that helps you stay…

Be Strong

strong /strôNG/ Adjective 1. having the power to move heavy weights or perform other physically demanding tasks. 2. able to withstand great force or pressure. Be strong. We tell children, we tell friends, we tell ourselves in the rocky moments of our lives to be strong, to be…

Plant Seeds

Plant Seeds Art has always been a part of my life and a vital part of my connection with Matt. I have so many memories of us standing way too close to a painting, hearing dancers labored breathing from the orchestra pit and sitting with our feet up…

What Moves You

We first began to move in the womb and our bodies were built to keep moving. The curvy condoles of our bones come together to form joints, our feet have built-in spirals that allow for the pep-in-our-step that propels us forward. All those little cushions of squishy disks…

Get it Out / Let it Out

Last Monday morning, with a cup of coffee in hand, I grabbed the Saturday NYTimes and hunkered-down in bed. I pulled out a special section titled, “America’s Mothers are in Crisis.

Paradise

My new morning ritual is to start my day with the spiritual teacher, Anne Lamott, an author, grandmother, and Sunday School Teacher. I love her because she is a great storyteller. In one of her stories she says, “If you want to help kids fall in love with…

Growing Pains

Growing pains are described as crampy, achy, muscle pains that occur in the legs of preschoolers or preteens. To me, theses pangs seem kinda unfair because right when you are on the precipitance of ‘getting it’ and/or understanding who you are and the life you have come to…

Eye of the Storm

July. The apex of summer. Shorts are short. Temperatures are hot. We are everywhere and nowhere. We are laughing, loving, and (re)connecting. There is much movement around us and within us. Everything is happening right now and all at once. There are so many moving parts.Things, people, and places…