We Are Here With You, Always

What remains when the body, personality and roles through which we know one another change? Their departure was sudden. The way it happened left the entire family in shock. There was no time to prepare for the silence that followed, to say everything we carried in our hearts, or to finish the ordinary moments weContinue reading “We Are Here With You, Always”

The Peace I Was Taught to Call a Weakness

For most of my life, I believed there was something wrong with me. Not because I thought I was incapable. Quite the opposite. I was the girl who was considered smart, creative, academically accomplished. The one who could put her mind to something and figure it out. And yet, there was another part of myContinue reading “The Peace I Was Taught to Call a Weakness”

What If We Learned to Let Go?

We get glimpses of the stillness within when we spend time in nature, and sometimes even in the middle of our ordinary, everyday activities. A moment happens. Something becomes very clear. We experience an unexpected sense of knowing, an aha moment, or perhaps something we cannot quite explain. And we wonder: What just happened? WeContinue reading “What If We Learned to Let Go?”