Her scent arrived first. Francis Denney’s Interlude. Delicate at the start, then coming to rest like a swaddle, a heavy musky balm, felt more than smelled. Next a tender clinking sound. Seashells? Wind chimes? No. Broken and mismatched rosary beads, dangling from wrists and waist. She bustled in with a casserole of course. Chicken and rice. And two old fashioneds, orange wedges and maraschinos on their colorful plastic skewers. (Sigh.) And she brought all of the pieces of self, abandoned…
Dear Radically Connected Friends ~ Just one month ago I was hunkered down, writing in my little attic office hovel, wrapped in fleece, feeling like this was going to be it for the long…
When I was a kid, my family didn’t talk about the important stuff that was going on in the world. The news was on TV of course. And I probably overheard adults talking here…
Be on high alert if you find yourself hoping for a return to ‘normal’. The norm is no longer yours to determine. Release normal. Release. (Truth: ‘Normal’ was (is) awful for a lot of…
I know I scare you.With my constant call for change and my fiery demand that you see.Be aware though…it’s not the changing or the seeing that is frightening.It’s your resistance.But it’s time.It’s always time…
Am I a bleeding heart?Yes. Yes, I am.Wide open. Hemorrhaging.All over the white living room carpeting.Don’t Resolve to scrub it away.Let the dye-ing seep in and through.It’s time. Time to transform.Time to reweave. Image:…
Two journeys to whiteness Like many of those of European decent, I grew up learning about my immigrant ancestors, harboring great pride in their brave choices to leave the strife of their homeland and…
Journal Gazette Publication: October 14, 2018 We tend to think that school-age children are blank slates who don’t see color and only learn about race when they first encounter it. Yet studies show that…
I love to help people dismantle internal obstacles so that they can connect with each other in profound, meaningful ways. What do I mean by ‘internal obstacles’? Patterns, belief structures, childhood learnings often before…
we are all connected in the deepest, most intricate of ways – each of us to every one and every thing, seen and unseen. There is not one thing we do or action we…