Several years ago I found the delightful poem “The Magic Box” and used it as a springboard to a writing activity for my K-5th graders. They wrote beautiful lines—even my first graders—like I will put in my box…yellow lemonade pouring into a glass and one large green leaf floating on the water…the little red house... Continue Reading →
On this Vernal Equinox, the need to hold both sorrow for the Earth and the world and Hope felt compelling to me. The sky this evening was a perfect mix of dark and light and blossomy pink. Wishing you some hope and offering to you and asking you to send further out into the world... Continue Reading →
*This post was originally written on January 14, 2022 Its my birthday. It’s been a tough day. Work in the current state of things has been exhausting. Yesterday, I finished my 10th day of subbing in a row and those anxiety proboking “Is it allergies or is it Covid?” symptoms that keep cycling through were... Continue Reading →
Traditions can can be tricky. They help us create deeper meaning but they can also set us up for despair—getting ensnared in expectations and chasing emotional experiences from the past. I remember when I first became conscious of this as a young teen and I wondered where that magical feeling I used to have at... Continue Reading →
“Find your magic.” The message comes printed on holiday kitsch and illustrated on oracle cards shuffled and turned only when a certain sensation moves about your fingertips. But even the sparkle of the little joys you have, for so long, openly received and appreciated has gone hollow filled instead with an ache that pulses and... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you’ve just got to let go of some of your rules (no Christmas before Thanksgiving, don’t turn to stuff for happiness…). Mom just loves Christmas (she has no Christmas boundaries!), and I got her a new twinkly white tree last weekend. She spent the next few days fluffing it up and adding some ornaments,... Continue Reading →
After a pretty funky weekend, The Museum of the Moon at ODU’s Moon Festival was the perfect soul balm. I felt like I was in the party I imagine to be happening on the full moon where doggy Roxy and Sister Sandy are listening to music and enjoying delectable treats out in a moon lit... Continue Reading →
One of the hardest things I’ve had to learn is that nothing in life is guaranteed. You can try to control and prepare and be very, very good, but you still don’t get to control the outcome. Waiting for the ideal anything (financial grounding, body, partner, schedule) is also riddled with pitfalls. I’m not saying... Continue Reading →
I haven’t seen this creature in a year. Last September and October, for 5 visits to the gardens in a row, it was there at the very same spot. I thought it must be so tame (it looks me right in the eye and holds my gaze) because people were feeding it. But I remembered... Continue Reading →
Internal Luminosity 