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Space NOT for Rent!

  I’ve been thinking a lot about renting and renters. The renter in my house in Albuquerque is trying to decide if she wants to renew her lease. My landlords are getting a divorce and I may have to find a new place to light. Being a landlord and being a renter are easy one […]

Letting in the Light to Be the Light…

    Vulnerability leaves you vulnerable. Big…Fat…DUH! In my search for living authentically…for having an open spirit…for being real and really being…I’ve been cracked open time and time again. I’ve been broken open many times in the past 37 years. Sometime times the wounds have come from others. Sometimes the wounds have come from my […]

An Ode to the Sun

“It was a clear, cold evening in early February, the end of a miraculously blue day blown in from the north like a celebration. People in the Northwest tended to greet such weather with a child’s sense of joy; strangers exchanged grins, houses were suddenly cleaner, and neighbors could be found in their yards in […]

She is who I am…

This afternoon’s instructor asked us to quiet our minds and then let whatever came to surface have space in our thoughts. This is a scary request for someone with a mind like mine…a past like mine. The never-ending mechanical whir of my brain being asked to make room for only one thought is intimidating…and yet that is […]

Without My Armor

“This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not to armor our basic goodness.” Dear Lord…this simple sentence hit me like a piano falling from a window in a cartoon. Boom Thump SMASH Some days…many days over the past couple of weeks…I suit up. And I’m not talking about getting dressed for work […]

Fitting In vs Belonging

“Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.” After I read the paragraphs ending with this sentence I said aloud “Yes!” See for months I’ve been having some form […]

Things That Matter Part 2: Sometimes a kitten saves lives…

**Readers Advisory: If you are (a) sick of hearing about my cats, (b) a jerk who doesn’t like cats, or (c) going to comment with anything that involves the words “crazy” “cat” “lady” or any combination thereof, STOP!!!! Click the little X in the corner and go find your soul. **  This is the story […]

Every Day I’m Hustling

“We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.” Courage, love, and compassion…those things are timeless right? […]

Things that Matter Part 1: Sometimes hair matters…

**Reader’s Advisory: If you are (a) sick of hearing about my hair, (b) uncomfortable with swearing, or (c) my mother, STOP!!!. Click the little X in the corner and go have a cup of tea!!!**  Important Facts About My Hair:  1) I was 23 before I scissors ever touched my hair. (Well…except the one time […]

Speak…

About 6 months ago someone asked me “If you are as ‘healed’ as you claim to be from your childhood abuse, why do you talk about it so much?” This quote answers that question very simply. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing […]