How do we hold space amidst all the complexity? Some friends shut out all media; some friends seem obsessed. Some focus on minute details and microscopic steps; others look at the vast horizon. And sometimes I just feel like my energy and moods are stuck in a pinball machine between the micro and the macro…between…
Stephen Covey, author or Seven Habits, may have described my energy of late (based on life and world events) as focused too much in my circle of concern and not enough within my circle of influence. This kind of energy leads to a feeling of helplessness (especially for a rehabilitating control freak like me). As…
In the two minutes or so that you may take to read this blog, the 5-6 liters of blood in your system will have circulated through your heart about six times. Your lungs will have inflated and sent fresh oxygen to your system about 30 times. And if you’re a mom, you know the potential…
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…