Daily writing promptWhat quality do you value most in a friend?View all responses The best friends I have are authentic. They let me see them and in turn I let them see me. This is probably the most challenging quality because authenticity requires risk and trust, trust and risk. Those are qualities that seem missing … Continue reading Let’s Get Real
Feeling Seen and Valued
What is the legacy you want to leave behind? It is my hope that my legacy will be people feeling seen and valued for the people they are. Every person matters and I make it my practice to listen and respond to anyone I meet. If just one person feels valued, accepted, and/or seen because … Continue reading Feeling Seen and Valued
We need you
The collective “we” needs the gift only you are and only you can bring. Societal and familial norms may ask that each of us “fit in;” still there is only one unique expression of the Universe in you. You bring an unrepeatable aspect to everything. Be you and let that be your gift to the … Continue reading We need you
Once so far
Have you ever broken a bone? I was 10 and fell out of a tree. I was fortunate to only have a hairline fracture in my left wrist. Still aches sometimes. It hasn’t stopped me from still climbing the occasional tree 5 decades later….
Balance Is An Attitude
Daily writing promptHow do you balance work and home life?View all responses Balance is an attitude. Time cannot measure the balance; perhaps only meaning and presence can. When I am “at” work, am I really present, giving my best in that moment to the work to be done and relationships to be nurtured? When I … Continue reading Balance Is An Attitude
Hold On
Sometimes it is difficult to believe that you and I are precious. There are voices outside us and voices within us that try to convince us otherwise. Sometimes those voices are remembered voices tied to previous failures and mistakes. Sometimes those voices are the critical voices spoken in the moment. I suspect in our shared … Continue reading Hold On
Unfinished Stories
I was at a memorial service yesterday. I was also facilitating the experience. Every time I lead a funeral or memorial, a variety of thoughts arise in me. Every person is a gift. Everything is a gift. There is meaning in rituals that celebrate the gift of a life, particularly in a memorial/funeral service. A … Continue reading Unfinished Stories
You Matter
You matter. You are precious. And knowing this is important because to know that one's preciousness means that affirmation from others is no longer perceived as necessary. The other affirms and it is fine. The other does not affirm and that is fine. Your preciousness is not derived from outside yourself. It is not even … Continue reading You Matter
Pause My Inner Critic
Daily writing promptWhat's one small improvement you can make in your life?View all responses A small step would be the recognize when I am dragging myself over the coals for some imagined transgression (or even a real one!) and simply pause, catch my breath, and let it go. And then repeat that response as often … Continue reading Pause My Inner Critic
You Define Preciousness
You are incomparable. Sometimes it seems everything gets its value through comparing to to something else; for example, gold is valued as a more precious metal than iron (unless you want to make steel in which case gold is fairly useless except to trade for iron). We seem to see everything as an exclusively either/or … Continue reading You Define Preciousness
Infinitely Precious 