Hello, my dear, What’s it like being you today? I wonder if it feels different these days than, say, a year ago today. Here in the States, tomorrow is a big holiday, one in which many people often travel long ways to be with family, whether family by birth, by circumstance, or by choice. And… [Continue Reading]
Today's Guests
Entertaining today’s guests: Disappointed and Despondent
These two guys appeared on my doorstep this morning. They won’t tell me their names so for the moment I am calling them by what’s printed on their T-shirts: “Is this all there is?” and “What’s the point?” Ever since they arrived, I’ve had a queasy knot in my belly and my chest is all… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guests: Break-up and grief (feat. Veronica Mars!)
I’ve been falling asleep, waking up and spending my days on a lake in a wee cottage north of Boston with Jennie, a German Shepherd. Not just any German Shepherd. Not just any cottage… H’s Jennie, H’s cottage… “H?” you ask. Yes H. H of the Love is Not a Victory March post. I didn’t… [Continue Reading]
Facing the blank page (in writing and in life)
Sometimes the thing right under our noses is our best teacher ever. How convenient. Writing has been kicking my butt teaching me about showing up and about getting out of my own the way. I can really trip myself up and get stuck when I think I need to know and orchestrate what happens next. It’s… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guests (break up edition): Regret, Doubt, Rumination… (feat. Rumi & Leonard Cohen)
This being human is a guesthouse… – Rumi It was probably the last day of sun before a string of rain days descended upon us, but on this day Spring was decked out in her softest and sunniest white, pink and purple ruffles and her youthful joy just made me all the sadder. Oh, my… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guest: “Too Much”
Entertaining today’s guest: Insomnia, again! (feat. Humpty Dumpty)
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Slow down and down in always widening rings of being. Jelaluddin Rumi No to-do list is going to get me there. There? There. Where worry ends. There. Where it feels safe. There. Where… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guest: Insomnia (feat. Mary Oliver)
Hello, frustration! This morning it woke me up, coursing through my limbs at dark:thirty. Hard to ignore. Certainly hard to sleep through. When I finally “cried Uncle” and got up, I was tapped ever so lovingly on the shoulder by this line: tending as all things do, toward silence… Ahhh. And then I remembered (with… [Continue Reading]