O made an important discovery in our yard yesterday. “Mama, this little flower is born!” Sure enough, the periwinkle bud that had been closed tight for the past week had unfurled while we slept. “It’s the flower’s birth day!” O said. So we made a dirt cake (“Flowers like dirt,” O explained); we topped itContinue reading “Happy Birthday Little Flower”
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Happy Birthday To Me!
My answers to three interview questions from Tribe of Mentors.
It Is So Much Easier For Me To Accept The Rain
Knowing that sunshine is coming soon helps put bad weather days into perspective.
The Place Is In The Details
When it comes to how something feels, the details can make all the difference.
You Are Home
What feels like home to you?
What You Do Matters
We can use our human legacy as storytellers to help ourselves find meaning and purpose.
A Room of My Own
Being location-independent has its perks, but, as Virginia Woolf observed in her classic essay A Room of One’s Own, “A woman must have…a room of her own if she is to write.”
You Can Begin Again And Again
“And in every moment I can be new. Every moment is a little birth. I know rebirth is true because I can observe it.”