O garden-dweller, my friends are listening for your voice, let me hear it! – Song of Solomon 8:13 Surprise greeted me this morning, when I was drawn to open the second book I wrote, Your Spiritual Garden: Tending to the Presence of God, and spend time thumbing through the pages.…
Last night I remembered something important: the necessity to float when I feel sink. I learned to swim about the time I began to walk. Floating on my back, buoyant, I’m a water baby, a lover of fluidity. It’s a life value for me to live engaged, active, and simultaneously…
It was my long week of anniversaries: an adoption date, a wedding anniversary for a marriage that ended in divorce, and the eighth anniversary of my teenage son’s death by suicide. Annually, when this week cycles, I have learned to lean-in and ride the emotional wave, taking care of my…
When the student is ready the teacher will come. I appreciate the writers and thinkers who generate inquiry into their authenticity and passion. I began to learn about the human energetic field nearly twenty years ago. The inquiry arose from necessity—which is another story—and it was hard to find grounded…
I’m not sure how I encountered Seth Godin. I think it was something to do with his book, Tribes. I do know Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?arrived in March 2010, and I spent the next two months digesting his brilliant guidance. Godin, “writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread,…
“Love is the only light that can truly read the secret signature of the other person’s individuality and soul. Love alone is literate in the world of origin; it can decipher identity and destiny. –John O’Donohue, Anam Cara I met John O’Donohue in Anaheim, California, at a workshop. He spoke…
“Verbal abuse is a violation, not a conflict.” – Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond I know I must write author Patricia Evans into my top 40 list, and her books are significant. But—and I rarely use the word but—I’m also afraid.…
“Writing rewards practice. Writing rewards attention. Writing, like sex with the right partner, remains a gateway to greater mystery, a way to touch something greater than ourself. Writing is an act of cherishing, it is an act of love: I love this and this and this.” – Julia Cameron Julia…
I wish I had more time to read fiction, and can become completely immersed in a good story with vivid writing and character development. I enjoy action, mysteries, political thrillers, a social context or issue, and in particular, historical novels with authentic characters and art or cultural exploration. Girl With…
My son, Justin, had died three weeks earlier. It was Valentine’s Day, 2006, and I stood in his bedroom, gazing at his bookshelf, in early afternoon light. I selected a book, pulling it from a tight shelf, and another paperback simultaneously slid out, fell, landed on the floor. I put…