The Beautiful Brave

The Beautiful Brave

This week’s Pinterest board is full of women doing remarkable things considering their gender or the time in history or their culture, age, background, color, religion, or any number of things! Take a look at their faces and stories and be inspired. Aren’t they amazing? What about you? Some of us grow into our bravery […]

Desire – On Beauty and Turbulence

Desire – On Beauty and Turbulence

The most beautiful sky I’ve ever seen was my own city, at night, from a turbulence-tossed plane. As the tiny aircraft flew in from the north the river slowly appeared, molten pewter, reflecting the lights and early summer stars. Along the circular horizon the sun was setting in a smoldering persimmon glow. I held my […]

Mother of Reinvention

Mother of Reinvention

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” ~ Anais Nin It’s a fresh new week and a brand new month. August has arrived fast on the […]

Dancing In the Dark

Dancing In the Dark

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. ~Pina Bausch Change is a terrifying word. Especially arbitrary change—change we feel we have no control over. It’s no wonder that the word menopause is not nearly as scary for most of us as the term The Change. “You’re going through The Change.” “She’s experiencing The Change.” It positively […]

Ordinary Celebrations and Tiny Revolutions

Ordinary Celebrations and Tiny Revolutions

In my mailbox this week was a beautiful note. Handmade, with watercolors on simple paper, the cursive words were an invitation to come and celebrate the full moon with dinner. “We have realized,” it read, “that our life needs more celebrations.” It went on to say that their plans were simple, that children were welcome. […]