The V-Word

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost

We see the world changing around us every day, whether it is just through a quick glance of seasons emerging and falling away, or in the height of a child, or the decline of an old neighbor. Life is a testimonial to impermanence. Even as we bear witness to the brevity of most any circumstance, we grieve...

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa

The most important experiences that I have now are the ones in which I am able to find in dynamic stillness....

“The commandment of Passover is only to the Jewish People but the story and the idea of freedom that the holiday embodies is for all people all the time. What separates the human from the animal is our free will, directing our own lives; when freedom is threatened we turn into animals.”

Today is one of the most holy days in the Jewish religious calendar. Passover, the night that is unlike...

“You can’t not communicate. Everything you say and do or don’t say and don’t do sends a message to others.” -John Woods

The most challenging place for me is the place of no communication. It leaves me to spiral into the depths of my dark imagination, attributing the lack of response to a litany of what went wrong, usually beginning with me. This has been improving slowly with the positivity...

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” Mohandas K. Gandhi

There is little else that brings me the joy of planting flowers. At the first sign of a warm spring day, my first impulse is to plant flowers. Choosing flowers to fill my planters and walkway is like choosing a palette of paints. Getting lost in the nursery, surrounded by endless bursts of color and...

What does sex mean to you? While no one else can provide an intrinsic meaning to the concept or practice of sexuality we all struggle with defining this most basic and integral part of ourselves.

“We are the recorders and reporters of facts – not the judges of the behaviors we describe.”-Alfred Kinsey

What does sex mean to you? While no one else can provide an intrinsic meaning to the concept...

“Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away”. ~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

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“A grownup is a child with layers on.” -Woody Harrelson

When my children were little I always tried to make our home the place that they wanted to be with their friends. Consequently, I have known and cared for many children over the years. I am proud and content to say that I have always been pleased with the people they choose to surround themselves. I like to think of myself as the den...

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. “ ~Plato

The line of positivity lives somewhere between the ability to set goals and to the ability to let things be as they are. The subtle yet precise balance point lets things happen for you with grace. It takes courage to envision a better world...