Stories
In my current less-young age, I’ve learned that almost more than anything, stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how…
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Empathy
Empathy says: You and I are made of the same lovely, heartbroken, and screwed-up stuff. You are not an object to me right now. (Maybe I’m not, either! Let me…
Expectations
Expectations are resentments under construction. — Anne Lamott, Almost Everything, p. 168 Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 17, 2019
Where Wonder Leads
Do we have time to notice the baby-fingernail moon, a thick cape of morning mist, the diamond dew? Do we play anymore, step away from tasks, duties, and habits with…
Blinders Off
Reading and writing help us take the blinders off so we can look around and say “Wow,” so we can look at life and our lives with care, and curiosity,…
Writing Your Life
And everything that has happened to you belongs to you. If people wanted you to write more warmly about them, they should have behaved better. — Anne Lamott, Almost Everything,…
Joy Training
Some of us periodically need to repeat the joy training, rehabilitate the part of us that naturally dims or gets injured by busyness, or just by too much bad news…
Fed by Life
How can we know all this, yet somehow experience joy? Because that’s how we’re designed — for awareness and curiosity. We are hardwired with curiosity inside us, because life knew…
There Is Forgiveness
The lesson here is that there is no fix. There is, however, forgiveness. To forgive yourselves and others constantly is necessary. Not only is everyone screwed up, but everyone screws…
Designed for Joy
Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy. Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the…