There exists a portal that is felt deeply within the cells of a bereaved mother. An ache for what she once carried in her womb, her heart, her arms that is no longer presenting itself in that familiar form. I begin to feel this almost to the date a month before or more the day that my son, Douglas, shed his earth suit. It matters not where I am nor how busily engaged I might be. It's in the quiet moments when I can hear my house exhale, upon the dawn of the morning that famil

I am practicing a summer pause for several weeks as I renew, reflect, refresh and replenish myself from the inside out. I hope that each of you will do the same in aspects of your lives where you are able to. Understanding that so many things call to us that we cannot set down, yet even if just one or two things can be, please ponder this invitation. Wherever you are finding yourselves in this now moment my desire for each of us is that we remember that no one will do this fo

Healing and the domino effect keeps me hopeful, curious and observant. I am discovering that as I heal and live into healthy ways of being, it naturally affects those in my orbit. I remember having dominos in my classroom and how much my students enjoyed setting them up carefully and having “guards” on duty to keep others from walking by and knocking them over. I believe they hoped to top any Guinness World book record. Once set up, they would gently push on the first one and

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” ~ Joan Didion This has been rattling around in my being with a sudden and very unexpected family loss just two months ago of my beloved cousin, Don. What sweeps my house clean is the depth of knowing that everything I wanted to express to Don, I did in our shared sixty-eight years. No filters, saying what we needed to and a depth of love and care that held us both for s

I see you because I am you and with that comes a knowledge that I so wish I didn’t have, yet I do and there is no turning my back upon it nor outrunning it because it cannot be done. I see you each day awakening wishing that what had happened was a nightmare you could shake off. Yet, here we taking these kaleidoscope shards and hoping to create something life sustaining each time we turn the knob just a click. I see you looking at your reflection wondering who is gazing b

This manifesto is a reminder of the Seven Superpowers of women - a gift from our ancestors through blood line and time – and it is at home in you, too. Written by Kim Berube INTUITION Intuition is the Wild Woman’s primary instinctual power. When we were young, we were taught to be NICE when we should have been knowing. We try to make our deeper feelings invisible in order to keep the peace, while our inner fire goes out. We say it all the time, “I knew I should have listened