April 2022 “You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.” Elizabeth Gilbert

March 2022 “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” Albert Camus

February 2022 “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S. Lewis

January 2022 “The moment we begin to see that there are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives, we cease being captive to the myth of normalcy — the cultural tyranny that tells us there are a handful of valid ways to be human and demands of us to contort into these accepted forms of being. [...]

December 2021 “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams November 2021 “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.” Leonard [...]

End of the Year 2020 "As this year draws to its end, We give thanks for the gifts it brought And how they became inlaid within Where neither time nor tide can touch them. The days when the veil lifted And the soul could see delight; When a quiver caressed the heart In the [...]

December 2019 "BREAKING SURFACE" "Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced, no father who won't let one life be enough, no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up, no voice that tells you in [...]

December 2018 "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.  Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." Thomas Merton November 2018 "That I feed the hungry, forgive an insult, and love my enemy--these are [...]

December 2017 "My religion is kindness." The Dalai Lama October 2017 "Follow your Bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were only walls." Joseph Campbell November 2017 "If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than [...]

December 2016 “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”  A Chinese proverb November 2016 "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether or not I am afraid." Audre [...]