Taking a pause for healing…
May 14, 2025 – I am taking a break from blogging and writing while I heal. What happens when you look at your life with tender curiosity?
. Curiosity is an element of joy
[in preparation of this blog post, I listened Joy Lab episode 152] “Take a walk and look at things the way you saw them when you were 12 years old,” a writing teacher once suggested. When I was 12, I was reading fantasy novels. Walking with the view of my younger...
Sen. Warnock calls us to hope
In a recent interview Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) said: “Hope is everything. When you lose hope, you stop fighting.” He went on “there are those in our country right now who are trying to weaponize despair. They are flooding the zone and they are hoping that...
The middle way between hope and fear
Buddhists have a slogan: “no hope, no fear.” Both hope and fear yank us us out of the present moment and move us into an imaginary future. Whether we see sunny skies or black clouds depends on a variety of causes and conditions, from genetic predisposition to whether...
Choose hope not fear
Our theme this month is hope. In preparation for this post, I listened to Joy Lab podcast Episode 148 Margaret Mitchell, the author of Gone with the Wind, said “Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.” You may have...
seven pillars of resilience in dark times
Today (18 March 2025) I read a blog post created years ago by Jasmin Lütke-Laxen describing the seven pillars of resilience. Many of us feel fearful and angry about the uncertainty facing us right now. I thought it would be interesting to apply what I read to current...
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