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Why Do I Care?

My dears – One of the things I haven’t written to you about much is the time just before I was lucky enough to find my way – be given a way – back home to myself when my way was obscured. A time when it was very easy to find me, given any particular day […]

Don’t Always Go Forward

I am not fully healed. I am not fully wise. I am still on my way. What matters is that I am still moving forward. –Yung Pueblo   Dear ones – I am definitely not fully healed. I am definitely not fully wise. I am indeed on my way. And I am not at all […]

Authenticity: Surrender or Collapse?

In my last post, I wrote about how important authenticity seems to be for many of my readers, here and in Reflections. I mentioned various kinds of tender topics I cover, and that folks have said they appreciate them. But what about the maxim given to so many new preachers? Preach from Scars, not Wounds? Preach […]

Who Cares about Wisdom?

I realize that I’ve been taking something for granted. Something that I have embedded in my brain as so important I never even saw it. My therapist in DC asked me what I wanted out of therapy. She asked me to think carefully about how I would know I was getting where I wanted to […]

We Need Change, not Shame

The following is a collection of thoughts that are in response to an email sent out by Mark Silver, the founder of the Heart of Business, and one of my teachers. The headline was, “The Healthy Role of Shame in Business (and in Life).” If you go to the Heart of Business website, you can […]

The High Priestess – Moon Dancer

When last we left our intrepid adventurer, she was looking at what many consider to be the most “traditional” of Tarot decks, the Rider Waite Smith deck. Specifically, the post concerned the third of the Major Arcana, the High Priestess, Roman numeral II. I invite you to go back to that post if you haven’t […]

The Gentleness of Questions’ Answers

Today, I intend to write in a way I haven’t done in this blog before. It is the way I wrote and spoke at my father’s memorial service. It is a way that I have written and spoken in sermons. I read the following poem this past week, and I want to share it with […]

Embers Turn to Flame

A friend of mine needed a sabbatical. He wanted to spend a year tending to his spirit, reading what would edify and delight him, cooking good food, and just being with himself. Holding the Ember He had the money to do it. He even had a job that took him back after he did some other […]

Why Does Discernment Need Confirmation?

I was posed an interesting question about discernment and confirmation this week after a friend watched my FB Live video on the subject. I had, in the short video, talked about looking for confirmation among one’s wisest mentors and in the place one finds the Sacred. My friend, I’ll call her Lila, wrote and asked […]

Being Blessed and a Blessing

When my father was in his prime as an English professor, I was young. We talked often about his work, my school, music, art, literature. All kinds of things. We talked and talked, often much later at night than was probably wise. One of the things he talked about was bringing people alive. He talked […]