Musings

The way through our darkest hours is our steadfast, stubborn, perseverant making of things. I’ve been gobbling up art lately, books by musicians filling pages with bold claims that live concerts can save us from ourselves because it is in those halls and amphitheaters we reach our shared transcendence. It is through pulsing rhythms we […]

Everyone is tired. We are all just pummeled by our own doings. Can’t you see?  That the way we are going about this life is inside out and upside down.  Moving ever faster toward an unknown goal. More, more, more.  Because to sit still and surrender, to find our way home in our children’s faces […]

Happy Spring Dear One, I return to work today, on the Spring Equinox, which feels fitting after having a baby in January and spending winter in hibernation like a bear with her cub. Spring marks my emergence as a different version of myself. I’m a mother now. My body has softened, my heart has learned […]

Happy New Year, Wondrous Human. Here we are entering yet another year filled with uncertainty and limitation. Not that it was ever any other way, but the thick curtain has been lifted and we are now starkly aware of just how fragile and mysterious life can be. That might read as morbid, perhaps even defeatist. […]

Hello Dearest Humans, Happy new year to you. Many of us are ushering in 2021 immersed in complex emotions. With gritted teeth, we watch the fate of our country unfold. The onslaught of information we are absorbing can be overwhelming and exhausting. Yet we still tend to our lives. With a deep sigh, we wash […]