Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
When I was little, I’d often climb the tree in our back yard in Iowa. Once I got to the top, I’d forget about my bestie Matt waiting down below and the things that troubled my heart. My sole focus was the feeling of sun on my face and a connection to something bigger than myself. After a while, I’d climb…
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You can do everything “right” and things can still go horribly wrong. I am facing this. I am embracing this. And yet, the question ‘WHY?’ pops up like a pesky fly, abruptly interrupting my thoughts, my focus, my joy. But WHY did this happen? The human need to figure out why a crisis occurred … where to place the blame……
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“I risk the safety of my inner world every time I pretend that I have everything under control when I’m really falling apart.” -Anne Carly *name has been changed After a decade of teaching students with severe behavior issues, I switched to teaching first grade. It soon became clear that a beneficial arrangement could be made between a veteran first…
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Personal crises don’t care about big plans. And when a crisis occurs, we are often faced with choices: Pause Postpone Go forward as planned In a decision process too complex for words, I chose Option 3: Go forward as planned. On a hot, July morning, just mere weeks ago, I sat on a taxiing plane, wondering if I’d done the right…
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This is not how I planned to return to this space after my annual July blogging break. If you are familiar with my blog, then you know that I consider it my ‘sacred space,’ where I share my most vulnerable thoughts and innermost discoveries with you, my companions on this journey. But today, I feel compelled to share something I posted…
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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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