Monthly Archives: March 2025
The Trickster’s Lesson: Trusting in Love and Luck
Leprechauns, those mischievous little shoemakers of Irish lore, are not exactly known for their trustworthiness. They are cunning, quick-witted, and masters of the fine art of slipping through fingers just as you think you’ve got them. They delight in riddles … Continue reading
Trust Is the Ante
If you’re a recovering perfectionist like me, you know how important control feels. Lists, plans,reminders, and organization create the illusion of certainty. And for tasks, trips, and anythingwithout agency, those tools work beautifully. But when it comes to human relationships … Continue reading
I Am Sanguine
I have often been told that I trust too easily. That I let people in without hesitation, without the caution that others say is necessary. But I have never seen trust as something to withhold, something to ration out like … Continue reading
Resist and Trust
Trust is an experience. It’s an action, and it is a very particular kind of action that is really challenging these days. Trust is the act of letting go, allowing, relaxing, opening and receiving the worthiness, the wholeness and the … Continue reading
Especially the Pain
Trust is strange and fragile. We crave it from others (often expecting it freely and readily), yetwe hesitate to offer it ourselves. And when we do, we may withdraw it in an instant, sometimesover the smallest real or perceived slight. … Continue reading
Trust? Really? Now?
For a period of several months, the spiritual and reflective reading I was doing continued to serve up to me the image of “opening” myself. One of the most poignant examples of that came with the opening words of a … Continue reading