Arise: a poem

Arise: a poem

As I enter this new decade, life becomes more precious, more luminous. It’s off the hook gorgeous to be 60 and be alive! I can detach from the stories I told myself as a child, and instead radically befriend myself and awake to my essential goodness.  Paradoxically,...
Going with the grain

Going with the grain

Where can women go to learn basic woodworking skills where wellbeing and the feminine qualities of simply existing, perceiving, and receptivity are welcomed and celebrated in the world of building, alongside masculine expression of dynamic, directed doing? Building...
The Uses of Sorrow

The Uses of Sorrow

Leaving Many times I’ve stayed in places,  jobs or relationships for longer than my body told me was healthy, right or good. Sometimes knowing when to leave just arrives as a full body, heart, soul, brain YES. Other times it’s a slow painful burning, a tug of...