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How Well Do You Tolerate Inner Diversity? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
Can you hod different viewpoints within yourself? With the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s famous Dream speech, the pollsters and talk show hosts are extra busy. ...
How Do You Get Grounded After a Trip? The Challenge of Reentry 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Reporting In After A Trip: Time away: 8 days Duration of flight home: 4 hours, 7 minutes Time zone difference: 3 hours Travel time door to door: 8 hours Time it took to realize how dog tired I w....
What Are Your Questions for a Wet (or Dry) August Day? 3 Aug 2013 | 04:32 am
Waving hello or goodbye? After the driest July in 50 years, we have come to August…and rain. Suddenly our world is gray, cool, the summer glow muted. We know summer is not over — neither by the calen...
What Would You Like Professionals to Know About Empathy? 21 Jul 2013 | 05:47 am
I find big trees very supportive I’ve been busy thinking about emotional support – how we provide it, how we receive it. I’m preparing to teach a class next week at the University of Washington for g...
How Writing in Partnership Connects You to Yourself and Others 12 Jul 2013 | 03:55 am
First write, then call I had forgotten how good this feels. How whole. How complete. Write. Read aloud. Write. Read aloud. Talk a little. Write. Read aloud. This is writing in partnership. I recon...
First Writing, Then Fireworks…July 4th for Your Internal and External Worlds 4 Jul 2013 | 11:10 pm
Fresh cut roses on the Fourth of July I was out early tending the rose garden this morning. As I dealt with the tasks at hand — pruning dead growth, fertilizing (and coaxing) the bushes, cutting fres...
What the Supreme Court Cases Tell Us about Patience, Perseverance, and the Passage of Time 28 Jun 2013 | 06:07 am
Did this change happen quickly? Slowly? I saw yesterday’s big news story break while I trundled along on an elliptical machine. I was watching an episode of Supernatural (oddly, the Christmas episode...
Create Space at the Solstice for a Midsummer Review 19 Jun 2013 | 09:34 pm
Today I welcome you to the summer solstice, which occurs Friday, on June 21. Midsummer: a day with many cultural traditions around change and healing and powerful forces. For me, the solstice is a tim...
A Brief Human Connection Through One Beautiful Rose 12 Jun 2013 | 06:55 pm
My roses offered their first blooms this week. Every year, my little patch of garden spurs me to a blog post. The acts of pruning and tending to delicate flowers always spark associations for me; rich...
After Denial, Writing the Truth About Changes 6 Jun 2013 | 05:41 am
Oh for Pete’s sake! That’s what I just said to myself before beginning this post. I’ve been pondering a blog post since last night, cycling through topics, implementing the standard procrastination te...
