can we hold ourselves and one another without condition? with a knowing that we belong just as we are, now? and that the questions and...

words do not catch my attention as perhaps they once did. my energy is captured by what is in between those words and underneath what’s...

I surrender to the pull within me To become who i am Shedding armor of expectation, prescription, presumption To make way for the fruits...

i wish this could be a break-up letter. knowing the impossibility of that brings me heartbreak and rage. even still, you need to know...

dear greta, thank you. your voice, shaking in power and rage and grief, is a wake up call. your actions are a wake up call. you are a...

we sow seeds to our becoming with such deep knowing that our minds cannot compute. we play a part in a much bigger play, a piece in a...

i grew up fearing taking up too much space. doing so was despicable. unacceptable. this was for many reasons given the circumstances of...

i want to whisper to those around me let’s be quiet and still for just a little while i want to hear ourselves and our world it’s too...

what does it mean to practice egolessness? to get out of our own way so that we can be in right relationship with those around us? to...

my heart breaks at our inability to be with suffering. my mind, body, and spirit hurt at our numbing–in all the ways we distance...

Everything has a beginning, middle, end.  For some time, this teaching Seduced me in trying to diagnose  Which phase I was...

One thing I’m noticing is the suffering of White folks. This statement makes me uncomfortable to say as a White woman. I’ve been trained...

i’ve long loved spirals. they represent to me an ongoing process of growth that returns, again and again to its origins. lately, i see...

note: as life would have it, i found myself with gloria this morning. inspired by much of what i write below, in a blog post that i JUST...

My heart has been heavy this week. I’ve spent some time considering why. Honestly, I’m not sure, exactly. And I’m learning to be okay...

a year ago i said yes to an invitation that only my soul understood to join with others broken-hearted by the suffering of our world...

the past couple of weeks, i’ve come undone. this, i know, is life. over and over again, we become undone. the practicing comes in...

for the past ten days, my brother and i have accompanied my mom through test after test, appointment after appointment–126 in total. we...

The piano man drew me in With the sweet lullaby he played as a backdrop To the swift movement of the herds of people. I sat, thankful for...

How many times will we be here? Waiting for answers to questions unknowable About life and death and suffering and aliveness Looking to...