“The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings.” Gita Bellin This sounds pretty simple, but though it’s easy to know you have feelings, easy to know their weight and agitation and suddenness of mood, it is another, more subtle matter to feel them – that...
The ear is only a petal that grows from the heart. When we hear each other, it all becomes a garden. Just what does it mean to listen? We have all exhibited the remarkable mental dividedness whereby we choose not to pay attention, and yet when asked, we can recite...
To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken. Seldom seen, growing along the ocean floor, the white plumed anemone is a watery blossom. It is white lace opening under tons of black, opening as if bathed in the sun, while so far from the sun. This is the...
Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them. There is a deep and humbling lesson in the way of birds. Their wings grow and stretch and span patches of air. First tentatively and then with confidence, they lift, they pump, they glide, they land....
“Work when there is work to do. Rest when you are tired. One thing one in peace will most likely be better than ten things done in panic. I am not a hero if I deny rest; I am only tired.” Susan McHenry When I need to be refreshed or renewed, I return to doorways...
