Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
I recently got cleared by my podiatrist to take a fifteen-minute walk outside. That sentence does not adequately express the magnitude of this permission. Trust me when I say that being able to do this after a year of excruciating pain and months of immobility felt miraculous. When it was time, I excitedly dropped my 14-year-old daughter off at tennis…
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“I’m not where I want to be.” Those words seem to keep coming up,in my mindin conversations in the world as it falls short, and living beings slip through the cracks. “I’m not where I want to be.” I heard those words frequently last week as I began my recovery process from foot surgery. ‘Four to six weeks in the boot…’…
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After going years without making this pie, I’ve made it twice in a month’s time. It’s truly the best Key Lime Pie I’ve ever tasted. The first time I tried it was after kidney surgery in July of 2015. A neighbor I didn’t know very well at the time unexpectedly dropped it off at my house. I had absolutely no…
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“Because it feels like we’ve been here foreverDon’t know how much farther or where we’re going toBut it’s our name printed on the doorwayTells us where we came from and what we’ve gotta do.” –The Fray I’m learning to walk differently through the world. In order to compensate for the chronic pain in my right foot, my gait changed over…
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On one of my recent social media posts, a commenter said she’d like to start taking a quiet moment each day to check in with herself—to notice what her body, mind, and soul are needing that day. For some reason, my response got a lot of attention. “I call this my Practice of Presence, and I do it every morning…
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“You’re not scared when I’m not okayYou’re holding the spacesYou’re showing me what grace isThat I’m stronger because of the pain.”-JJ Heller, Beautiful Again Right in front of my eyes, I watched virtual learning through a global pandemic take a toll on my youngest teen. Gone was her motivation, her spark, her creativity, and her curiosity. Ever-present was angst, sadness,…
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