A light bulb went off in my head the other day, and I realized that I had missed something for some 67 odd years. I must be the only person who reads and understands the English language that hadn’t realized that the word “Forgiving” is actually two words — For and Giving. Duh! That’s right…

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Grief can be a real bummer, but if we avoid it it robs us of the opportunity to soften, to understand humanity and the joy of life itself. I’ve been known to avoid it by working, staying busy, trying to be as helpful as I can to people who understand the importance of grieving and…

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I’ve discovered that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place and that only grieving can heal grief. — Anne Lamott Ms. Lamott goes on to say that time will lessen the acuteness, but will not heal grief. I am one of those people who is pretty helpless when someone is…

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For a lot of us there are places we feel welcome, and then there are places where we feel unwelcome, in fact we feel as anxious as a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs. And if you are like me, those places can and have changed over the years. The same…

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it may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”  — Wendell Berry…

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