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the past couple of weeks, i’ve come undone. this, i know, is life. over and over again, we become undone. the practicing comes in accepting it, being in it, and not retreating in utter fear. i’m still practicing. the thing is, all that we’ve learned our entire lives tells us otherwise: to hold on tight.Continue reading “undone”

for the past ten days, my brother and i have accompanied my mom through test after test, appointment after appointment–126 in total. we have been waiting in limbo-land for life and death information. waiting at the intersection of life and death, living takes on a realness that is both heavy and liberating. the heaviness comesContinue reading “waiting”

The piano man drew me in With the sweet lullaby he played as a backdrop To the swift movement of the herds of people. I sat, thankful for this music And it’s transformation of this place and space.   The man next to me invited piano man To play Sounds of Silence And with that,Continue reading “roy’s song”

How many times will we be here? Waiting for answers to questions unknowable About life and death and suffering and aliveness   Looking to strangers for directions on finding  “quality of life” Alongside those we are bound to, through birth or by choice Who in those very moments offer all the answers we need:  Continue reading “answers”

For a long time, I understood “being grounded” as positive. I aspired to “feeling grounded”. For me, it represented a feeling of being solid, sure, connected with a sense of integrity and wholeness. The irony of being grounded is that this groundedness is rooted in groundlessness–a deep understanding that there, in fact, no solid groundContinue reading “on groundlessness”

when we truly open our minds and hearts, we become both nothing and everything all at once as we re-member we are part of the whole body of creation. when we experience this re-membering, it is like an old familiar place that lives deep down in our bones, long forgotten: we are but threads inContinue reading “re-membering”

It’s a busy, chaotic time. Constant and jarring change. Our world is increasingly complex and it seems impossible to keep up with all the moving parts and pieces. As soon as a decision it made, a plan confirmed, everything changes. As a friend and colleague recently declared as we were doing org leadership planning, “It’sContinue reading “open or die”