If you’ve never experienced labor, then you have not had the singular experience of going through transition. But transition is the best metaphor for what I am feeling right now, so let me try to explain. Maybe some of you can relate. Transition is the period of labor starting when the woman’s cervix approaches maximum dilation…
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The Wild
So many years I toed the line…
Maybe the Path Chose You
I had a dream one night.
Screaming Demons
Someone, please tell me it’s going to be ok. I spend my life…
Do as I Say, Not as I Do
Parenting Advice From My Mother My mother was…not always equipped to be a good mother. She started young, and her inner demons made it hard for her to be the person she wanted to be for her children.
Breathe
Here, take a breath Come from a mountain High in the Himalayas Take it in, reverently; Savor – Now release, an offering to trees Deep in the Amazon. Rest. In, salt-kissed Caribbean air Warmed, as you, by the sun; Hold that joy, Then out, A gift for the green of Ireland. Wonder – How you…
Forgiveness – It’s Never About Them
Forgiveness is a fraught topic. The Online Etymological Dictionary entry for “forgive” suggests its origin is as follows: Old English forgiefan “give, grant, allow; remit (a debt), pardon (an offense),” also “give up” and “give in marriage” (past tense forgeaf, past participle forgifen); from for-, here probably “completely,” + giefan “to give” (from PIE root *ghabh- “to give or receive”). “Completely given” makes sense…
Unfettered
Free, the murmuration rises New with every beating breath; Living stream of grace and beauty Pulsing, flowing, length and breadth Shifting geometric daring Without planning or preparing. Force this pure cannot be harnessed. Caged, the beauty stills and dies; Creativity is living And it must be free to rise. Let it go, release, unhand it;…
What Will Be Your Measure of Success?
It’s taken me three dozen years to get here, but I finally know what I value the most in this world. It’s not respect, although I enjoy that immensely and it’s definitely high on my list. Not money – I’d like enough to never have to think about it again, but no more. Fame is…
How to Make Friends
File this one under “Adulthood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.” I don’t have a lot of experience making friends. Most of the time, if I have a friend, it is because they are an extrovert and they adopted me. But if I thought making friends as a child was rough, it paled in…
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