by Kate | Nov 3, 2023 | Love
As I sat down to write about love, someone sent me this quote: “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their...
by Kate | Nov 27, 2022 | Chronic healing, Love
You may be thinking “but a silly title. Of course people who are ill are as lovable as they were when they weren’t ill.” That’s the conscious, reasonable attitude. A funny thing happens, though, in our unexamined, reactionary minds. People who...
by Kate | Nov 16, 2022 | Love
I was reminded recently of the Christian Scripture on love (first Corinthians 13:4-7). Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in...
by Kate | Nov 9, 2022 | Love
This month, I am considering the kind promise “I will love without keeping score.” When I love, I am wishing for the other that they grow and blossom into their own brilliance. I wish the same for myself. Imagine a world where we nurtured ourselves and...
by Kate | May 7, 2021 | Love, meditation
“Compassion,” says meditation teacher Susan Piver, “is the ability to hold love and pain in your heart at the same time.” Andrew Boyd agrees. “Compassion hurts,” he writes, “when you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything.” He...
by Kate | Nov 25, 2020 | kind promises, Love
Who are we? Certainly not them! They think so oddly who do they think they are? How dare they? But wait don’t they feel the same way about us? So maybe we can go beyond us and them and expand our us to this roiling human yearning but why stop there? Mama polar...
