We are blessed by love’s light. ~ Rumi dear ones, i am grateful to share with you an invitation to join me this Thursday, June 25th at… Read more “a vigil for our beloved dead”
Category: pain
beauty and garlic
dear ones, for the first time in nine days i went to the grocery store. i had a heightened sense of awareness of how everywhere i… Read more “beauty and garlic”
the right words
dear ones, many years ago i was really sick. i had an illness that was never really diagnosed or named. my mental and physical unwellness disrupted every… Read more “the right words”
more nothing maybe from covid-19
dear ones, i’m having great difficulty alongside you (at the CDC-recommended potentially safe distance), about the condition of humanity right now. to honor and express my dismayhem,… Read more “more nothing maybe from covid-19”
Dvořák’s Requiem carries the darkness and light of loss
Dear Ones, ♫♪ It has been a tremendous musical JOY to revisit Dvořák’s Requiem mass with North Carolina Master Chorale the past two months preparing our… Read more “Dvořák’s Requiem carries the darkness and light of loss”
mother in training
(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… Read more “mother in training”
blowin’ smoke
dear ones, There is so much more to my shadow than I can ever write about. Looking at my shadow–things hidden and things I choose to carry–I… Read more “blowin’ smoke”