The truth about pain This is story about pain. More pain than I ever thought I could endure. Pain that woke me up in the night, pain that followed me from room to room, house to house, city to city and finally, from midland prairie to...
Dear readers, I am writing to say that I will be taking a brief hiatus from these letters to give myself time to adjust to the immense amount of change that has happened in my life in the last months. Moving to a new place has been...
This letter has felt impossible to write, yet impossible is where I’ve been living this whole year since my mother was diagnosed with cancer. It was impossible that she was sick, impossible that she was taking chemo, impossible that she was just healthy enough to...
The soul is a relentless companion. It never rests in seeking its freedom and voice. It will do what it has to do to release you physical body, your mind and your emotions form the debris of untruths and self-deceptions that keep you chained and...
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great...
You have probably heard at one time or another that emotion can become stored in our bodies. Long after our minds have moved on from a traumatic event feelings of sadness, trauma or anger can well up seemingly from no where and have us questioning...
I used to do this, the self I was Used to do this The selves I no longer am Nor understand. - Maggie Nelson I don’t know about you, but these days I feel almost unrecognizable to myself. There has been a profound amount of letting go, change, and growth...
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. -Arundhati Roy Friction is necessary in any growth cycle. As we have just passed through the doorway into spring in the northern hemisphere, you can feel nature...
Every horse should be able to run full speed, and know the beauty and wonder of it’s strength. -hafiz These words by Hafiz fill me with a kind of longing, how wonderful it would feel to be able to run at full speed when we are a year into...
“How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being. Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened” - Hafez I have always found February to be a most difficult month. I was pondering the why of this as I was preparing this months newsletter....