Relationship, A Longing
In our longing, we reach out, to know and to be known, to touch and to be touched, to be held by an energy other than our own. We move out of ourselves and into the mystery of the other. Relationships...
View ArticleIn Relationship
Relationship is built into the genetic fiber of life. It is an innate spark that live-kind, fairly early in its evolution, exhibited — the propensity to move toward other live-kind, other life forms. A...
View ArticleFlow River Flow
I was a freshman in college, taking a Greek philosophy course, when I was first mesmerized by a piece of the truth. “You can’t step into the same river twice,” suggested Heraclitus, a fifth century BC...
View ArticleA Child’s Point of View
My mother and I are energized by different goddesses. If you want to know how to cook something, how to arrange flowers, how to put together a room, you go to my mother. If you want to rearrange the...
View ArticleShe Sees Me
“Don’t get old on me, Mama!” my daughter used to chide me. My Sarah, in high school at that time, has always known just how to get my attention, and she does. What I heard her saying to me was, “Mama,...
View ArticleMy Little Troll Under The Coffee Table
As a child, I loved the story of the troll who lived under the bridge and who tried to capture the three billy goats as they crossed his bridge on their way home. Each goat told the troll that the...
View ArticleA Close Encounter Of The Ordinary Kind
As a child, I loved the story of the troll who lived under the bridge and who tried to capture the three billy goats as they crossed his bridge on their way home. Each goat told the troll that the...
View ArticleWhen It Works, It Works
“Thank you, Angel,” I said with a smile to my three-year old grandson as he handed me something. I turned to finish speaking to someone else in the room. “Van-Van,” he said, not yet finished with our...
View ArticleOn the Way
People move in and out of our lives, invitations to deeper waters we could not travel except for them. This stirs lovely as well as lonely moods, their coming and their going. Not meant to join lives,...
View ArticleHere’s To You, Dr Seuss
What’s not to love about The Smiling Place? Such splendid space! So full of grace. My children have both entered this Smiling Place, something I cherish and embrace. My John, 35, ran the Olympic Torch...
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