(A personal reflection on mothering and parenthood.) “Music is not in the notes but in the silence between.” ~Wolfy Mozart Being a mother is ever changing. It’s not a role to “ACE” or master. Motherhood offers a chance–just like all roles we play in life–to learn, grow and emerge–rinse and repeat. My pace does not […]
Dear Hearts, On Valentine’s Day 3,000 people of different religious faiths gathered to celebrate coexistence and sing Matisyahu’s prayerful song, One Day. This collaboration and video offers an incredible example of the power of community and song, combined with vision. We can transcend our differences to cocreate one vision of peace, love and acceptance on […]
Hello Dearhearts! Last year so many people cheered me on and backed my attendance at the Appalachian State Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, in North Carolina. Thank you so very much! Through your kindness and generosity –and my husband’s holding of the fort — I was given time and space to deepen my own heART […]
Hello Dearhearts, Past few weeks have been a whirlwind whoosh of blessings and challenges. It’s a real life: a miraculously blessed, magical and sometimes painful one. So here I am, pinching myself in front of y’all, to make sure I savor this JOY, sharing one of my greatest memories from the past week and […]
(Photo captured moments before the total eclipse from Sylva, North Carolina, USA, August 21st, 2017) 💕🦋❤️🌏 Earlier this week, I was blessed to have arrived safely in Sylva NC to witness and pray beneath the total eclipse. If you wished to have been in totality, please know I was there for you, too. I burned […]
A prayer for my now: Help me to greet the world as I truly am— whole–enough–flawed–wild–open And not how I wish the world to receive me— separate–good–perfect–tame–limited. Truth. Is. Being. Real. Connected. A speck in all. ❤ becky j suzik
Starting inside my own heart, One Day can be today. May it be so. 