Unburden yourself
Do you know something no one else knows? Practice it until you make it a song that sings you. Don’t pin your silence to a board.…
This is not a bell
This is not a cowbell. It is a story wrapped in a linen shirt and carried from the old world into the new. It is origin.…
Such is life
I live in the borderland of grief and joy. It’s tempting to fall apart. I have lived on the lip of insanity. Like a sundial I…
I don’t want to lose a single thread
When John O’Donohue’s blessing for the end of the year came across my screen yesterday, my reaction was resistance. Isn’t that so often my way? To…
All the words you need
A silent stirring. The spirit of light. Everything is too much. Row. Here are all the words you need—use them wisely. This combistory is a little…
Bright blessings of the season
Bright blessings of the season to my friends and treasured readers. Thank you for joining me here in this online space. My life is so much…
Everything that matters
There’s a beautiful photo essay on Emergence Magazine this week, text by Erik Jacobs and photos by his wife, Dina Rudick. Erik has been battling cancer…
Coming out stories
The experience of being in and coming out of the closet,” Ash Beckham says, is universal: It’s scary, and we hate it, and it needs to…
Fourteen on December 6
14, As More Than Just a Number by Anna Humphrey For Geneviève Bergeron, 21 Because you bled one week of every month. Because you wanted to…
Something deeper than hope
(a combistory made from quoted text) The doctor made a uterine incision on the woman’s body to extract the fetal arms then grasped the baby’s feet…