Q&A: How can I place my faith in a God who continues to let such terrible things happen?
Q: Last week, a version of this question appeared in my Facebook group: How can I place my faith in a God who continues to let such terrible things happen? To respond to this question, [...]
On being willing to move again: Creativity and Unfreezing
So, finally – after a year of not posting to my blog, I posted. Half a page. Nothing special. Just a door, an eye, a heart opening after a time of being closed. Opening after a time of [...]
And all of it was love
Since my mom died, I have felt concerned that I am not crying. Not mourning. It seemed there was no grief left in me. Perhaps, I thought, I had already let her go – already grieved. As she [...]
What is happening where you are?
We mustn’t ignore what is happening in Washington but we mustn’t also ignore what is happening where we are. Where I am, at our local french bakery, a man in a striped sweater – [...]
Mama Bears Rising
What I saw in the March: the rising of fierce Mama Bear energy. This is powerful medicine – which rises to protect and support the people and the world that we love. And it is just what the [...]
White stones, the water against the raft
We held mom’s funeral yesterday. It was magical and curious, eclectic and playful – just as she was. Friends from every part of her life rose to speak of her artful and curious nature [...]
The Hope
In his beautiful book, “The Hope”, Andrew Harvey writes passionately and eloquently about the current world crisis – the desperation and desolation of huge masses of human [...]
Our mom died last night.
Kent Jorgensen Ozarow September 8, 1929 -January 17, 2017 I will write more about her. I write about her all the time. For now, I will say this: She was an artist. She was a poet. She read to me [...]
When the world feels like it’s falling apart, how do WE not fall apart internally?
As another politically charged story explodes across the multiplex of screens through which we view the world, I am sitting with a cup of tea and exploring the seeming opposites of contentment [...]