For mid-July, it was a cold morning. Gray clouds hovered over the pool and the summer breeze was brisk and chilly. And yet we gathered to swim. All shapes and sizes, ages and demographics. Some obviously athletic, others barely able to walk up the sidewalk to join the line. We were the faithful -- some […]

I do not have to convince any of you that the world feels clamped down and serious right now. We are watching norms being overturned as if they do not matter, people arrested off the streets without warning or due process, retributive policies enacted with a grin and a giggle. Things feel dark and ominous. […]

I sense a shift from many of us in what we are watching, listening to, and reading in an effort to protect our nervous systems from the constant barrage of jarring news, ugly sound bytes and voices of hate. That same shift is happening here. I have to altered my podcast listening away from anything […]

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it" (Robin Williams) Before I got sick in Spain, I had 3 lovely days alone in Santiago, the destination city for most travelers (known as pilgrims) who are walking the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route in Europe that ends in northern Spain. […]

Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between "green thread" and "broccoli," you find that you have penciled "sunlight." Resting on the page, the word is beautiful. It touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a present sent from someplace distant as this […]

Hello my little group of readers. I have missed you. I have not written for awhile and that makes me feel sad and a bit paralyzed. How do you start back up? What do you say? I have been doing well, but have had some big assignments on my plate that have taken up most […]