This week I went home to Detroit. I hadn’t seen my mom in nine months due to Covid concerns. So many feelings always come up returning to the house and neighborhood where I grew up. Many lifelong neighbors are still here – all in their mid to late 80s. Some houses are now run by…
Lately I’ve been thinking about all the times in life when things didn’t go exactly as expected – life’s cracks, so to speak. They can be seen as positive or negative, but it seems impossible to walk through life without stepping on cracks. And, perhaps learning to dance with the cracks is the journey of…
What does make your heart sing? Really sing? Really expand with so much love, joy and connection that tears spring to your eyes? As with so many of us these days, I feel a heaviness and a sadness about the world. That weight took a pause last week as I was sitting on my deck…
Wednesday night a very bizarre thing happened. I had written the blog and was replacing the picture (to the one shown) when the whole blog disappeared, not to be found anywhere. I was a bit stunned since I’ve written about 100 of these and replacing a picture never trashed the blog before. And I wondered,…
Early Tuesday morning, I gave my keys and garage door openers of my home for the past seven years to new owners. The house echoed empty save for the sleeping bag and pillow that my dog and I slept on in the living room for the last night. I got up early to watch the…