Every day is an opportunity to learn and grow. The trick is being open to the lesson. The company I work for hosted a volunteer day yesterday and about 80 of us adjourned from the office to clear rows of weeds and overgrowth from a public space in the city of Seattle. A farming non-profit …
In several recent conversations this blog has come up, as has my enjoyment for the process of wordsmithing. I take great joy in turning a phrase I find especially meaningful or artful, but there is more underneath. In those conversations I’ve noticed that a part of the reason I write is to be understood. This …
“I have been born again. I have been through a psychiatric experience which has completely changed me. I was horrendous. I had to face things about myself which I never admitted, which I didn’t know were there. Now I know that I hurt every woman I ever loved. I was an utter fake, a self-opinionated …
It’s been 4 weeks since the ceremony described in Here Be Dragons. My shame and fear remain turned well down into the single digits after having been dialed to 11 for so long. Looking back I have realised many things about my behaviours during this time, one of which is the extent to which I …
I was leaving the grocery. My car was parked at the end of the row, in the spot farthest from the front entrance of the market. I saw a woman in a bright green shirt standing near the curb at the edge of the lot. She was looking at nothing in particular and seemed indecisive …
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” Sometimes I actually hear the click of it snapping into place. When, in moment of clarity, a thing that I’ve known intellectually suddenly becomes vast understanding. The sound accompanies the proverbial light bulb, incandescent over my head, powered by a surge of deep and profound …
