“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac I spent more than 30 years being angry at my mother. I didn’t know why and I never questioned my feelings. My anger just was. In November of 2015 we hadn’t talked in …
“And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.” Acts9:18 KJV Medieval European maps often grew outward from the Mediterranean Sea, which they believed was the centre of the Earth. At the edges of the known world was the great unknown, terra incognita, and here the maps were often illustrated with fantastical …
“I found god in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely”-Ntozake Shange This time, the temple in the woods was familiar, a place of refuge and peace to come home to. Beneath the skylight piercing the apex of the dome was safety, community, acceptance, and love. I was excited to swim once more in …
There are tectonic moments in a life when the Earth beneath our feet shakes and shifts and the world upends itself in a convulsion of change and realignment. The path, once so clearly unrolled before us, fractures into rubble, falls into a yawning, steaming chasm, and a new, open way appears in another direction. Do you …
A few days ago a person whom I”ve never met face to face sent me an email that has shaken me to my core and has made me question, even moreso than before, the rhyme and reason, the wherefores and whyfors, of who and what I am. That email was necessary and welcome because it …
