Happy Holiday Hiatus

I can’t believe we have arrived at this place. It’s come fast and S L O W all at the same time, it’s our annual holiday break. This year has been a doozy for everyone although we’ve all had our own experience with what a pandemic can wreak. We are going to continue our joy…

Being Joy(ful) Wherever You Can

I was away for a few days at the beginning of December. It was a long-planned trip to celebrate our 20th anniversary. Not for me and Lowi, we go back further than that, but for my husband and I arriving at 20 years of marriage still speaking to one another and overall happily together. For…

Being For… Giving

Here we are in the week of Thanksgiving. This has most of my life been a week that I love. It’s a holiday that made sense to me in the past. It was one with very little pretense and overall was about something as basic as food. There wasn’t a lot of pressure because mashed…

Being For… Balancing

Being alive, engaged and present in the times we are in is often painful. We are navigating circumstances that many of us don’t have any idea how to handle. Many of us have dipped back into old patterns at times; ones we thought we had banished long ago. That’s what challenging times do to us….

Being For Healing

I was out walking last Thursday morning, still in a post-election haze, and I came across this leaf. As soon as I saw it, I recognized the hole was in the shape of an upside down heart. How appropriate. Isn’t that how our hearts feel at times, like there is a hole inside them that’s…