During one of my attempts gardening, a friend explained to me that regular pruning can help plants to thrive, even when its branches were not…
Help and Power
At some point in life, everyone needs help, and almost everyone gets an opportunity to offer it. Another thing humans like to do is build identities around…
On Indignation
Something about indignation is enticing. Where there is a group of people, particularly an institution, there are pockets of indignation, complaining, and gossip. Groups within the…
Odes to Time
To Linear Time Blessings on you, highway between birth and death upon which experience can flower and wither. Finite currency, ever-depleting account, the hoarding of…
We Can Do Better
This post breaks from my usual psycho-spiritual explorations of Self to addressing a material, social reality: the problem of incarceration in the United States of…
If you need to hear it:
You are not broken.
On Practice and Change
For almost seven years I have committed to a daily meditation practice. Some days I am only able to manage a few minutes, other days…
Advice for a New Year
Ignore perfect answers. Perfect, instead, mistakes. Befriend and tend your shame, that nuzzling beaten pup whimpering through thin bars, mutt tongue licking your heart. Notice…
Sacred Marriage: I Am… Sasha Fierce
After my lengthy close reading of archetypes, identity, and relationship in Beyoncé’s album B’Day, I debated whether to continue the exploration for later albums. This series of…
Healing and Need
Working in community mental health, I have thought and re-thought and will continue to re-think the value of mental health care for people who struggle with poverty…