Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
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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“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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