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Advent in the 2020s

One of the strange and wonderful things about aging is realizing which traditions you want to hold on to and which ones you can release. Lighting the advent candles is something I’ve held onto. Hope is such a strong, gritty, determined thing. And more light and warmth is almost always a good thing. After allContinue reading “Advent in the 2020s”

Saturday Insight

I used to despair at what I could not do.The things I could Not Change.I would rage and weep and thrash and exhaust. Now I practice acknowledgment. I see it and grieve it. Mourn and move onTo what I Can Do.

Parenting in End Times

I’m learning that I’m rarely alone in my feelings or my thoughts, however isolating they may feel. So I’m wondering if there are others out there who struggle with raising a child amid the climate crisis. Within ten years the world may change so much we are in unending catastrophe. My girl will have justContinue reading “Parenting in End Times”

Hopefully Halfway

When I am 80 I hope to have a face covered in laugh lines and walls covered with pictures of people I love and adventures taken. When I am 70 I hope to have a strong heart and body so I can read to school children and walk dogs from the shelter. When I amContinue reading “Hopefully Halfway”