I feel tender toward the uncertain young woman I was when my life seemed to be spinning out of control. I want to tell her things will turn out all right. She’ll survive the crashes. Sometimes she’ll soar. There will never be a day when something good doesn’t happen. She’ll find happiness, not as...
“We all deserve to have fun, live large, and be ridiculed by less imaginative people existing under the erroneous assumption they get extra credit for being prudent and safe.” Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally I’ve spent a lot of time in my life...
OK, so I confess to having teetered on a narrow fence in contemplating the law of attraction, the power of intention, and so many of what seem facile answers to life’s complex questions. I still think there are times when self-professed gurus lead us by the nose along a path that’s popular but not...
“Rainbow House,” she calls it, my rainbow friend, All colors, water reflecting back the sun. All promises of treasure, But if you follow to the end, even the color disappears. Hold too tightly and you hold only air. She teaches me patience and trust. Patience to wait, to know that the rainbow always returns...
Single mothers were rare among my circle of friends in Twin Falls, Idaho, but I was lucky. I got the best. Mother was a good teacher. Here are four of her lessons. 1. Decisions have consequences, for which I alone am responsible. I hit the “terrible twos” at the age of three. Until then...
Their fleece was curly. They stood in normal sheep poses. Some grazed, some stared off into space, some lay down. One ram sniffed the back end of a ewe, testing the possibilities for starting the next generation. The field on which the sheep grazed was the floor of Frankfurt’s Museum of Communications. Their faces...
“We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these...
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