As a person who loves words and has dedicated many years to verbal expressions of all kinds, this may be a first: a personal declaration that sometimes one single sentence can be enough for a lifetime. While growing up the men in my life included my father, two grandfathers and
Where the Name Comes From Long before I ever had the gloriously life-altering experience of first setting foot on French soil, I fell in love with the Charles Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities. Written in installments for a London periodical it weaves a harrowing story of love, desperation,
Finding My “Safe Place” — And a Life Lesson from The Horsewoman The gentle rhythm of hooves ambling through the barn; the whickers of “horse talk”: greeting, recognizing, staking claim; the fragrance of hay and fresh wood shavings in stalls – sensory images and impressions that take me to my
If you’re a frequent yoga practitioner, you know the sense of lightness and freedom that comes from a focused, intentional yoga session. Often after class, my thoughts return to the introductory words shared by the instructor to invite us to settle into the experience, or to the guided imagery accompanying
Ever felt like this–broken, shattered, scarred, emotionally paralyzed, closed-off, lonely, depleted? Now imagine the opposite: a sense of wholeness, focus, energy, clarity, confidence, contentment in the moment, a feeling of being centered and expansive. Is that even possible, and if so, how? First, I believe that it is possible–by viewing