Kindling a Forest Fire of Thoughts: Grace in the Time of Corona
COVID-19 has been many things to each of the many of us. Right now, I'm working on neutrality. It's not an easy place. It's a Buddhist place, although I'm not a Buddhist or anything but spiritual. By neutral, I mean attempting to observe and not judge it. But that's a...
Quarantine Birthday No. 2: Grace in the Time of Corona
Happy birthday, yesterday, to my only child. My daughter. My baby—now grown up young woman. Last year you turned a quarter of a century and those closest to you gathered at a restaurant and celebrated your milestone birthday. This year, while only a year older, of...
Bring on 60: Grace in the Time of Corona
Today, June 10, I celebrate 60. I embrace my age, I embrace aging. To age is a privilege. More to learn, feel, grow, taste, dance, paint, write into words, celebrate—if I be so fortunate. I thought I might channel some “wise words” to write here. But, they...
Racism & the Dark Side of America: Grace in the Time of Corona
Dear Peeps, You know why we're having racial protests right smack in the middle of a pandemic, don't you? Think hard with me here....In this sub-series in The Journey with Grace—"Grace in the Time of Corona," I've been writing about how there's light and dark sides of...
Judging, Part I: Grace in the Time of Corona
Mother always said: "If you point a finger at someone, remember, you have four pointing back at you!" So. As I write on the scorching hot topic of judging, I'm highly cognizant that I'm outnumbered in the pointy finger department. I'm swimming, bobbing up and down, in...
Self-Identity? Then. Now: Grace in the Time of Corona
It's odd how much can change in four month's time. Especially while wading through the warped reality of a pandemic. Before COVID-19 came knocking, back when 2020 made its sparkly and starry-eyed with-hope-and-great- promise debut, I reconnected with my friend...
In the Community of Motherhood: Grace in the Time of Corona
The act of becoming a mother means that some invisible hand of life-emotions reaches down into the very pit of your heart and takes a wrench hold. You will never be the same. You have joined the universal community of motherhood. There's no turning back. If one is...
