Archives for September 2011

these past two weeks have been fairly normal—school, work, together-time, untogether-time, mind/soul nourishment, body nourishment, laughter, cuddling…it’s all been here and, again, reasonably routine—except for this one thing: andy’s dad is dying. while the kids have, unsurprisingly to us, been handling the entire situation with unfastened reverence and grace—for andy and i, juggling the day-to-day dance, while honoring the sacred’ity of this experience has largely been little short of a… Keep Reading

One afternoon, entangled in one of my near-signature “disheveled, researcher, must organize, simplify and make sense of a syrupy mess for both myself and others mode,” I began thinking about the people I have known or have worked with over the years who are (from my perception) living a balanced and whole hearted life with an apparent sense of ease. I began mentally tallying up the character qualities and life… Keep Reading