Today is Epiphany… The 12th day of Christmas…didn’t you hear those 12 drummers do their thing? The celebration of the visitation of the magi (aka The Three Wise Men…aka Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior…aka Dudes who throw a mean Baby Shower!) The day that the realization hit that Jesus was the Son of God…and was sent not […]
Today I was in a meeting where I needed someone a couple levels higher on the food chain from me to dive a little deeper into the weeds and understand some more complex design decisions. I was not, however, asking this person to go deep into the technical details or even to understand the concepts […]
A friend of mine asked me a question today about feminism and the impact of a certain very famous book on “the cause”. This question got me thinking… When I was a vegan*, I still ate honey and wore leather that I bought secondhand. This was not vegan enough for many of my vegan friends […]
Truth: The world…young or old…male or female…fit or not…think it is okay to STARE openly at fat people. Let me just set the record straight…I may be fat, but you (and usually your little jerk-faced kid who learned this behavior from you) are still being rude. 2nd Truth: My cart full of produce and this […]
All over the United States Community Acupuncture is popping up in urban and suburban neighborhoods. The concept is that, in order to keep the treatment affordable and make it available to more people, it is done in a community treatment setting. For instance today was my 4th visit and my treatment was in a 5 […]
I walked through a portion of the Earth Sanctuary on Whidbey Island today. The sun was shining. The Osprey were overhead. The path was muddy. The air was crisp. I had a dear traveling companion with me. It was perfection. At the end of the walk, I kept my appointment with The Lady in the […]
2014 was odd. Sometimes we get caught up in thinking that odd is bad, when in reality odd is really just something that is strange or different from what we expected. And that is exactly what 2014 was for me. If I laid out the start of 2014 and the end of 2014 on paper, […]
Thankful feels like… …that moment when the sun shines even though it’s still raining and you feel the warmth and the water on your face …paying every bill that is due because you have more paycheck than debtors …the sound of the engine on your car turning over on a cold morning …being offered a […]
An Ode to Beards Never in all my living days Have I seen beards grown in so many ways You are short, you are long, you are ZZ Top You are red, you are brown, the gray won’t stop I like to touch you with my fingers I thought I’d move on but my love […]
Yesterday a dear one prayed the following over me “I pray that Leah would trust herself enough to believe that she can make good decisions about her life.” I wrote it down. I walked away from it. Or so I thought. For the last 24 hours I’ve twirled the idea around in my head that […]