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 […]
Author Archives: Annagrace
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
“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
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
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. […]
Listening to Our Bodies
When this year began I made one giant promise. Not the sort written at midnight on New Year’s Eve, fueled by holiday indulgences and anxiety at the year ahead and not the kind written in shame-scrawl on the back of an envelope which also happened to contain notes from a recent doctor’s visit. No, this […]
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