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Gathering in

Now is the gathering in time. Have a look at what you bring in from your efforts. Look for the good, choose what you might do different... ...more

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September 18, 2024•1 min read

We turn to the West

West is a direction of completion and maturity, of dreaming, the source of water, the place and time of transformation ...more

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September 11, 2024•1 min read

If you’ve followed me any time at all, you know I love my garden. The last two years have been especially challenging: I was in SC half the time and couldn’t tend. Had no soil to tend there. My soul a... ...more

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September 04, 2024•1 min read

Hongry: hot and angry

Forget “hangry”--that cute level of hunger that makes people irritable. It’s been a staple in commercials for some time. A candy bar is the solution. This weather? It’s bringing the “hongry” out. ...more

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August 28, 2024•1 min read

Hope and the Hobbits?

It was Samwise Gamgee who said this, in The Two Towers, to Frodo: It’s like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. ...more

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August 21, 2024•1 min read

Hope as a liberative journey

Oppression and fear sit in opposition to hope. Sometimes, they, too, feel as if they are everywhere all the time. What if they are? ...more

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August 14, 2024•1 min read

Hope is no invisible bird.

While Emily Dickinson puts hope into the symbolic form of a bird within us, we live with it as “optimism” and “a belief that things will change.” ...more

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August 07, 2024•1 min read

More on hope--

Hope is still the topic du jour and Emily Dickinson is still the guide--her last stanza (see last week for the first) sits with me on a regular basis. ...more

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July 31, 2024•1 min read

Hope! Above all, hope.

Hope can be many things to many people: and believe me, it seems to be more than Emily Dickinson’s poem ...more

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July 24, 2024•1 min read

The Kindest Gift

When you’re different, people sometimes thing that the things that make you different also make you defective. ...more

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July 10, 2024•1 min read

From what am I free?

Sometimes we need liberation from knowing, sometimes from.. not knowing. ...more

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July 03, 2024•1 min read

Me? Oh yeah.

You just never know how your past is going to show up in your present. And the best way to respond, in my opinion, is with some degree of humility for having survived as long as you have. ...more

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June 26, 2024•1 min read

#Traumatwisties

Y’all remember when Simone Biles said she wouldn’t perform? That whole thing about the “twisties” that gymnasts sometimes get? Something in their inner ear along with their confidence gets wonky and t... ...more

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June 19, 2024•1 min read

Anticipating loss: a unique kind of pain

We all anticipate loss at some time in our lives. Depending on how other losses have affected us, we may withdraw, lash out, or freeze. ...more

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June 12, 2024•1 min read

Change. Who likes it?

Not me! I tend to feel, as do many of us, stupid, incompetent, awkward, irritated, annoyed and definitely fearful when change shows up at my door. ...more

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June 05, 2024•1 min read