Writing as a way of listening — a gentle daily practice for clearing the noise and meeting yourself on the page. The Mind Is Noisy The mind is noisy. Morning […]

The things our fathers couldn’t finish become the things we must learn to stay with. My father used to say, “You gotta wanna.”He wrote it on scraps of wood and old […]

A dear teacher of mine, Caroline Carey, shares a profound process called the Mandorla. At first glance it seems simple: two overlapping circles. Each circle represents a different truth, a […]

my post today feels like what i need to tell myself most: it’s ok not to do. you don’t have to have it all worked out. it’s ok not to have a […]

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” — Montaigne Belonging is not just a nice-to-have. It’s a fundamental human need. Without it, we […]

I felt that same old familiar feeling — rock and a hard place, as the saying goes. I’ve been there many, many times before. That place where there really doesn’t […]

If you are not prepared for the hard thing, given the opportunity, you’ll go for the easy option. Case in point: me. I intend to do this writing—the hard thing—and […]

It’s been an unusually busy year for me—taking on a full year of both study and work. Feels like I’ve been mastering the art of juggling tasks and life. But […]

Aren’t these early moments of the year a little hard? I’ve lived through 46 of them so far, and to me, they feel like when you were a kid, running […]

Looking back to see forward To remember implies that there’s something we’ve forgotten—and this is often true. Being alive is synonymous with forgetting. In fact, you might say we’re born […]