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This morning, as I sit outside by the huge Pine (the one I had not liked when I first moved to the mountain, before we got know each other), the sound of so many birds swells my heart, and, despite the turmoil in the world, I cannot help but feel joy. A lizard peeks over the concrete border between patio and wild grasses then scampers away; the Sun warms the back of my shirt mingling with the fresh, cool morning air brushing my bare arms; and the delicate wild hyacinths sway

This moment in time is alarming. It is volatile, violent, chaotic and insane; horrific, intense and deeply disturbing. Or, as my friend Rex says in his signature simple way, “It’s heating up out there.”  Unlike when I was a child, or even a young adult with three network channels, news at 6 o’clock and 11 o’clock, and a once-daily newspaper we paid a paper boy to deliver, we now receive our dose of news in constant horsepills, too big to swallow. Instead of our local events a

In seventh grade, with glasses, short hair (self-cut after a mass of it had been pulled out from getting too close to a power tool -...

TW: mention of violence, trauma, sexual abuse Diana, age 16, right before, or in the first month or so of, her pregnancy with my older...

Sister Crow keeps appearing, caw-ing to me from the great Pine in the lot next door, flying overhead, so close I can almost feel her,...

My writing teacher shares the prompt and sets a timer for five minutes. Can anyone capture what the heart says in five minutes… ?  ...

(Note: Today is 22 days after the start of the Palisades fire. My heart and prayers are with all living beings affected. It is still too...

Dear readers, It's been quite a while since I last wrote for you. Like many of us (perhaps you too?), I've been dealing with A Lot....

“The water isn’t cold. The problem is getting out.” I look at the crystal blue waves rolling toward us. She brought Jewish songs and the...

What an outrage! The committee in my head wakes up, fully alert, and fires away. First the Codependent Kid: Why did he do this to me?...

The words arrive via private message in the new virtual holy land of Zoom. A group of us are in deep inquiry about how to be in community...

I’ve wanted to “save the world” since I was a child, from nursing fallen birds, to feeding the hungry, to ending war once and for all....

Okay, so we've all been waiting for Covid to take its hand off the Pause button, right? We want to get back to normal, go see our...