Motherhood

Gardens

Each season of your life will pass. It will yield seeds to plant. You can grow more pain or you can grow healing. You will repeat this all your life. You will forever be practicing how to choose things that feel make you feel whole. This is being human.

Faith

Sunday Palms and Pauses

I have been thinking a lot about death. It is Holy Week here. Palm Sunday. I suppose that seems reasonable when death is taking many in the world. And in a week comes Easter which is all about the tangle of death, crucifixion, and life reaffirmed. I used to be afraid of death. In a… Continue reading Sunday Palms and Pauses

Motherhood

One by One

Back in 2016, I wrote a letter to my daughters. It was just after the Orlando nightclub shooting. I built on it, yesterday and today. You don't realize how big a piece being afraid is part of parenthood. Fear is a piece of our human experience and the way it can drive behaviors is amazing… Continue reading One by One