Phillip Moffitt: Working with Difficult Emotions
"Can you feel joy amid pain? I say: Yes. Definition of bittersweet." --May 5 at 9:45am tweet via HootSuite --LeisaHammett Phillip Moffitt, former entrepreneur turned Esquire magazine owner and editor-in-chief turned spiritual teacher spoke at Nashville's...
Called to Love, Compassion & Community…
"And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you, too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to compassion and to community." --Jean Vanier I'd say that...
In the Community of Motherhood
Photo: Bill Bangham, Father of Click, 2004 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...
Motherly Inspiration
"Where design and motherhood and intersect." That's the tagline for DesignMom, one of the internet's most intriguing, savvy blog-enterprises and blog owners--Gabrielle Blair. She's a designer and mother of six--the youngest just reaching the one...
“A Novel Idea”
What would happen if we stopped lowering our expectations of young people, and instead set a very high bar for them? So high, in fact, that most adults would love to have the tools to vault over that bar themselves? That's exactly what "A Novel...
#Nashville Flood: One Year Later
The memories are painfully tender: One year ago Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, the heavens above Nashville flung open and remained gapingly stuck, dumping 19 inches of rain. A 1,000 year flood we had. Here are a just a couple of posts from #NashvilleFlood:...
The Redemption of Autistic Art
It was a rough morning that started out good enough. Grace had an 8:15 dental appointment, so we slept in until 6:30. For many years, we literally had to drug her with a dentist-prescribed medication so that she could tolerate having her teeth cleaned. After her...
