Culture
If we kiss the friggin’ frog…
I’ve been trying to live the following spiritual truths: once you accept something fully, then it can change know your shadow, and it won’t destroy you kiss a…
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Culture
Personal is political
This has been said for a long time, but I am starting to see just how simplistically true it is. The repeal of Obamacare that just spectacularly flamed…
Culture
breaking through
I want more than anything to break through. Break through the fog that’s clouded my country. The dark, gold dust-filtered smoke that chokes my loved ones and mesmerizes…
Culture
please for my birthday, mr. president
I’m asking for only one thing: please start acting like a winner. A good one. Good winners are fair to their opponents. Good winners are kind to all…
Culture
A Pledge of Human Decency
I’m not sure why I feel it is important to promote a pledge for human decency today. Maybe it is because I feel a little sick in my…
Culture
Red Face to Chance Grace
For the first time, I have experienced a random Trump supporter asking me how she could ameliorate election-based stress in her family. This came within a heartfelt 2-sided…
Culture
Post-truth: a convenient lie
[originally posted 12/6/2016] In case you haven’t already heard, here I present to you the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year: post-truth. This confection, ahem, conception has…
Body & Health
Self Care Salvation
[first posted on Nov 10, 2016] I have been feeling shocked. But I will not stay there. When you are in shock, for real, you need stuff to…
Body & Health
Who’s carrying…
… the emotion of the situation? In every intense interaction between people, an emotional ‘bubble’ gets created. Usually this bubble is experienced by each person based on their…
Mommess
Intervention
During a rough patch in my life, I had a life-changing experience that I was the last person in the world to get “It.” “It” was an understanding…
Creativity
Rosie says….
Culture
The conversation
This morning my daughter lied to me. Not about anything big, or even particularly important, but the lie was said, then backed up by demonstrations to “prove” its…