All or Nothing? Listening for Our Common Grief
Can we honor our common grief, our common tendencies to slide into all-or-nothing in the aftermath of these terrible traumatic events?
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- May 25
- 3 min
Freedom From a Root-Bound Mind--and Oh Dear God...Again!
In the aftermath, writing about gratitude and mindfulness seems kind of callous, even frivolous. Or perhaps naive. But it is not.
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- May 18
- 3 min
Oh! Buffalo
Perhaps I can truly hear the small things that I, personally, can do to help shift the balance from fear and hatred to love.
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- Feb 16
- 1 min
Where You're Bravely Working: Grief & Hope
Two poems about loss & hope--one from a grand river, and one from a small creek in the wilderness.
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- Dec 29, 2021
- 3 min
'Tis a Holy Thing to Love
What a strange and sometimes very difficult thing it is to be a human being. And perhaps no period is more difficult than the time of grief
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- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Silence: Three (Very Short) Stories
On the backside of that hill the incessant noise of traffic and construction was buffered out…so we could drink in the silence as well.
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- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
To Love What Death Can Touch
A fearful thing to love, to hope, to dream, to be–to be, And oh, to lose. A thing for fools, this, And a holy thing, a holy thing to love.
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- Jul 28, 2021
- 3 min
Forget Your Perfect Offering
Something has been pulling on me, calling me to simplify, ease down, clear space to make room for something...new? different? re-focused?
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- Apr 28, 2021
- 2 min
deeper glimmer showing
I'll never forget the train ride home after Christmas that year, as every clack of the wheels pulled me further & further away from her.
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- Dec 9, 2020
- 4 min
In Order to Grow—Pruning Off a Major Branch
"Looks like we just gave ZZ Top a shave & crewcut!" said Celia. We looked at the huge and tangled heaps of grape vines we'd just pruned off.
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- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
Small Seeds of Hope: A Tiny Toolkit of Quotations
Quotations, in a sense, are stories in miniature. Here are a few of my current favorites.
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- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
Small Seeds of Hope: I Will Not Fan the Flames
So I find myself saying, what do I have to add that could possibly address any aspect of this heartbreak?
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- Jun 17, 2020
- 5 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Face of a Monster?
When I was twelve years old I met an extraordinary man. He didn't look very extraordinary. Dressed in monks' robes, he had a shy smile...
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- May 13, 2020
- 4 min
Anti-Covidanxiety Toolkit #9
We all need support to be brave, less anxious, to lean a little bit more into love. So I continue to share these little pieces of hope...
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- May 7, 2020
- 5 min
Anti-Covidanxiety Toolkit #8
What happens when someone tells you, "Don't think about that!" "That" being your current big problem or concern. It's like saying...
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- May 7, 2020
- 2 min
Anti-Covidanxiety Toolkits: Lists of Tools
Here is the list of all the tools in all the toolkits so far. Or consider it an atlas of maps. Take what you like and leave the rest!
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- Apr 8, 2020
- 6 min
Anti-covidanxiety Toolkit #4
I'm going to start with a confession this time. A couple of mornings ago...
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- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
More good news: Songs and poems
A few more poems/songs that have been speaking to me in the midst of this strange new pandemic world we find ourselves in.
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- Mar 30, 2020
- 7 min
Anti-Covidanxiety Toolkit #3
Here are a few more ways to dislodge that anxiety, melt it, shake it loose, or at least mute it down a little.
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- Feb 12, 2020
- 2 min
The Fellowship of Grief
Such a relief to be with people who needed no explanation for the often massive feelings I was having. They got it. They were in it too.
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