Holding Each Other Through Hard Things

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]