This is the third in my ongoing series of reflections on the idea of a “soft life” and what it could mean to create a life with more sustainability, honesty, and room to breathe. Friday …
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Toward a Softer Life, Part Three: A Life with Room to Breathe
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Toward a Softer Life, Part Two: Worthy of Tending
This is the second in my ongoing series of reflections on the idea of a “soft life” and what it could mean to create a life with more sustainability, honesty, and room to breathe. I’ve …
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Learning to Listen to My Body
For much of my life, I thought caring for my body meant learning to control it. I grew up surrounded by images and messages that taught me what a woman’s body should look like. Thinness …
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Toward a Softer Life
This is the first in an ongoing series of reflections on the idea of a “soft life” and what it could mean to create a life with more sustainability, honesty, and room to breathe. I’ve …
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The Space Between What Was and What’s Next
These days, there is a lot to take in. And alongside everything happening around us in the world, life continues to shift in personal ways we don’t always expect. Some changes we welcome. Some we …
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Where Imagination Begins
I’ve been thinking about imagination lately. Not in a big, creative, “what can I make?” kind of way. Rather, the quieter aspects of imagination have captured my, well….. imagination. How imagination shapes the way we …
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Honoring the Fullness of the Holidays
A Reflection on Grief, Light, and Making Room for What’s Real Our culture tells us this is supposed to be “the most wonderful time of the year,” but that has never been the whole truth. …
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Holding the Thread
“The only constant in life is change.” Those words, spoken by Heraclitus more than two thousand years ago, still ring true today. Change is part of being human. Sometimes we choose it. Sometimes it chooses …
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Transitions and Transformations
“The only constant in life is change.” At least that’s what Heraclitus tells us. We may think that our modern world is more fast-paced when it comes to change, but these words of Heraclitus come …
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Fall Like a Leaf
Like many people, (especially here in the Northeast) autumn is my favorite season. There is something about the change of the air in late August, when the nights get cooler and the days crisp, that …
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