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Crushing It
On October 29, 2024 I found myself inside of the Ellipse listening to Kamala Harris give her campaign speech in Washington, D.C. I was there to visit Hannah and Blake whose new jobs required them to live in the area. … Continue reading
Living Love Through the Practice of Repair: Home
Jon Bon Jovi had a duet song playing on the radio almost 20 years ago that chimes, “Who says you can’t go home?” The song is ultimately a story about finding yourself in a place where going home is not … Continue reading
My Teacher Did What?!
One morning when I am about eight years old, Mom drops me off at elementary school especially early. In my third-grade classroom, there are only a few other students, along with our much-adored teacher Jane Hill. Miss Hill is at … Continue reading
Ocean Song
Places sing calling songs. Just now, they might be missing their people. We might learn that by allowing ourselves to miss them… In our bone-deep missing, and in our willingness to remember ourselves as worthy of being missed, we could … Continue reading
Breathing
Is meditation your friend? I know it should be my friend, but true confession: I am terrible at maintaining a relationship with meditation. I know this is to my detriment. I know all of the benefits of meditation, but I … Continue reading
Listening to Our Innermost Self
There is a room that is called the quietest room on earth in a laboratory in Minnesota. It is completely covered in the highest quality acoustic tiles and is a cube suspended inside another cube with springs that reduce outside … Continue reading
Is This A Task?
This past weekend I was struck with a very harsh reality from my family. As we sat down for breakfast Saturday morning I asked if they would be OK if I wrote that morning…. And that invited a deep conversation … Continue reading