“I found it shelter to speak to you” – Emily Dickenson Today I simply want to share a passage that matters, a few questions, and one of my treasures from Anasazi. All of them center on the powerful gift of listening. A few years ago, I ended up with a copy of a book called…
Category: Love & Family
Eye Am Grateful
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates…
The Kindness of Strangers
If you only have three minutes, click and listen to this from NPR’s Story Corp. A Victim Treats His Mugger Right. You’ll never forget it. I’ve been thinking about strangers – the hundreds of people I pass, walk alongside of, and share roads and air and space in my world with every day. I don’t…
Sacred Space
Ever since our human ancestors wandered as nomads, human beings have had attachments to certain places. We could look at essentially every culture and find some place that is different from the rest. For some it was the natural beauty that inspired them (think Grand Canyon). For others it was places that they had built (from Mayan…
A Puddle of Hope
I absolutely LOVE my job! There really is nothing like it out there. As a wilderness therapist, I work with both parents and their children. I work in an office and in the wilderness. I am bound by ethical and licensed boundaries, but the sky is the limit when I work with adolescents as we…
Live From The Indwelling Light
Live From The Indwelling Light There is something intrinsically wrong with me… I am a bad person… All I ever do is hurt people or let them down… I can’t do anything right… I’m a failure… I don’t deserve beauty, love or happiness… My suffering is punishment for my iniquity. ~* ~* ~ “It…
Gratitude, Respect and Love
Last week I ran into a very touching poem by Dave Griffid titled “Too Soon Old”. I also found out that this poem has been floating around internert for some time, but I couldn’t resist sharing it with you in case you haven’t read it yet. TOO SOON OLD. What do you see nurses? …..
Suicide & How My Brother Saved Me From Drowning
I’m the youngest of six kids. I have two brothers–the oldest is David and the other is Sean. Sean and I didn’t get along when we were younger. Don’t get me wrong, it was nothing serious. More of a personality difference. I liked Sci-Fi, he liked sports. I wanted to watch cartoons, he wanted to…
Be Your Own Valentine!
** BUZZ BUZZ ** (the alarm goes off) You open one eye, then the other. It’s morning. No, wait … it’s Valentine’s morning. You throw the covers off of yourself and stand up. You look in the mirror and say, “I love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!” Right? No? Why not? Isn’t this a day of…