The House of Belonging – Feb. 14, 2023

“This is the bright home in which I live, this is where I ask my friends to come, this is where I want to love all the things it has taken me so long to learn to love. This is the temple of my adult aloneness and I belong to that aloneness as I belong […]

Solace Blessing – Mar. 24, 2022

That’s it.That’s all this blessingknows how to do: Shine your shoes.Fill your refrigerator.Water your plants.Make some soup. All the thingsyou cannot thinkto do yourselfwhen the world has come apart,when nothingwill be normalagain. …. –Jan Richardson, from “Solace Blessing“, The Cure for Sorrow, p. 77

Happiness – Oct. 11, 2021

“When I hear someone say, “Money can’t buy happiness”, my first instinct is to wonder from what mindset they are operating. Those that have had all the material conveniences and luxuries one can buy, might (if they are lucky) come to realize that all the “things” in this world can’t buy happiness. And they are […]