I’ve done lots of forgiveness work over the years, in classes and workshops and therapeutic settings. Guided meditations, visualized conversations for healing, letter-writing exercises. Usually, some rich stuff gets unearthed — my own blind spots, a fresh perspective on an…
Travis coined the term “ANGSTICIPATION” last week. It’s a good new word. I put it on my cork board. And I’ve been thinking about how often it’s an apt description of my state of mind. He was talking about the…
“When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that makes it good or bad.” Miles Davis I spend a decent amount of time worrying about hitting a wrong note. Afraid that something I say or do will be…
As many times as I’ve heard and sung Morning Has Broken, by Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, I’ve always been a little unsure about the last line of the final verse — “Praise with elation, praise every morning, God’s recreation of the…
by special guest, Janna Nelson “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.” ~ Rumi For hate and fear to…
I don’t know exactly how I landed amidst a bunch of negative reviews for a children’s book… It was a couple of weeks ago. I was researching something online, clicking this link and that, and I found myself transported into…
I’ve been reading a strange and stimulating book by Simon Winchester — The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. It’s about two men central to the decades-long writing of…
I wish things would just settle down. Be still for a bit so I could catch my breath. I mean, I enjoy novelty and variety in my life. I don’t mind a little excitement, a little pizzazz. I’ve been known,…
In a novel I just finished reading, a character experiences a case of Stendhal syndrome. I’d never heard of this. Named after a 19th century French travel writer who first described the condition, Stendhal syndrome refers to a complex of…
