Jul 22, 2011 | Beauty + Joy
Ever since I returned from my retreat the monastery last week, I've been lying low. Feeling quiet. In a little bubble. I thought and I expected that I would return with some great clarity of purpose and boundless energy to DO things. But actually, I...
Jul 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Learn To Be Quiet (Franz Kafka) You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It...
Jul 3, 2011 | Beauty + Joy
When my son and I were visiting my mom in Ohio a couple weeks ago, his cousins Tara and Nikki came to visit. We were having fun chasing each other around the yard, climbing in the treehouse, and playing card games. Kayne's dad, Bob, surprised us all with...
Jun 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
It breaks my heart wide open when I hear people at funerals wishing they’d expressed their appreciation while the person they loved was still alive. Or folks at the end of their lives feeling like they missed the color and magic in the midst of to-do’s and...
Jun 28, 2011 | Celebrating in the Dark
The other evening, my beau and I watched a film called, A Single Man—about an English Professor who is despondent after the death of his lover. Early on in the movie, we learn that this professor is planning to kill himself in the evening. However, as the day...
