When my children were babies, I remember watching their feelings take over their bodies. Delight, bliss, exhaustion, fury would just wash over my child. Sometimes I felt a little envious of how flowing and free the process seemed. Babies do
Have you found yourself feeling thankful for clarity about what you need to be working on? I have a dear friend, whose daughter has had trouble reading throughout elementary school, in spite of everyone’s best efforts to help her
All over the world, we are seeing difficult times. I don’t need to spread the details of bad news, but suffice it to say that the four countries I feel most closely associated with (the US, Colombia, Mexico, and Austria)
You know that habit we seem to have, to want things to be different all the time, no matter what the circumstances? Even after all these years on this journey of self-acceptance, of choosing to allow myself to unfold instead
The past months were busy and overly full with the regular already heavy schedule for my family, as well as additional activities, responsibilities and emotional work around 8th grade graduation from a close knit school community, and preparations for my
It’s already February, and I am still not used to writing 2016 as the date! Instead of resisting the passing of time, it would serve me better to choose to focus on how the year moves at a perfect pace.
Yay! I am writing at Lake Michigan again. At last it is warm enough (okay— just not cold) to bear sitting on the rocks and feeling the breeze. This is a new spot, though, and I am in the shade