
Wanderlust – A Perspective on Being
Wanderlust - wandering, navigating, movement, voyaging, rambling. Blocking Wanderlust with Lists and Goals I have spent too much time making lists and setting goals. But have come to understand that this was my way of organizing and acting as if I controlled...

Going Through the Motions When Grief Takes Your Heart
My Mother's Passing Waves of intense sadness come over me at the weirdest times. Brushing my teeth. Listening to the words of a song, which mom would have never heard. Hovering over my computer writing about something unrelated, but somehow related. A flash of her...

Window to the Soul – A Reveal
Through the Art of Eye Contact I am a staunch believer that eyes are indeed a window to the soul. Windows into who we are. Eyes can say a great deal and do so without words. Because our eyes can be so revealing, is this why making eye contact with those we walk by on...

Liminality – Living On the Threshold With An Appreciation
Transitions States of liminality. Think of how many transitions you go through in one day, let alone a lifetime of being in your skin. Moving from day to night. Sleep state to awake. Seasonal transitions. Childhood, puberty, adulthood, and elderhood. Emotional...

A Soul Retracts, Quietly Persisting In The Shadows
A Soul A deep conversation. An intense look. Seeing her for the first time as the soul I knew before. I lost her to a world she thought she preferred instead of the one into which she was born. The world where she was loved unconditionally. She left for an abyss that...

Becoming You By Being Vulnerable
It is How We Will Survive Whenever there is uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure, there is vulnerability. Everyday we lose a bit of ourselves simply by waking up. No day is similar, ever. Our routine may appear the same, but the unexpected happens. It may be...