“Love and belonging are irreducible needs for all people. In the absence of these experiences, there is always suffering.” ~Brené Brown “If people don’t know who we are and what we believe or think, there’s no true belonging.” ~Brené Brown

When I was a kiddo, I hung out with a friend, who had some friends who stole boxes of Humpty Dumpty chips off the back of a truck. Remember Humpty Dumpty? When my friend shared this event with me, she also gave me I some of the stolen chips. While…

“Take nothing personally, least of all ourselves.” Vaccines, masks, restrictions, phase 5 — to do or not to do. So serious, what others choose also so very serious. Is it really? At the end of the day none of us will get out of life alive. We all die at…

Having choice seems to be something battered around a great deal throughout this pandemic. Whether one ‘should’ get vaccinated must be a choice. The choice to wear a mask is argues strongly for by anti-maskers. …

I sat with my arm around a young athlete. They were depressed and feeling not good enough, that feeling most of us have experienced at some moment in time. Not ___________ enough… just enter whatever word works for you. What does that mean? What would you be if you were…

I decided to go blueberry picking. Berry picking is a pretty nostalgic thing for me. When I was young, I would go blue berry picking near our home just about everyday while the low bush berries were around. I got started berry picking with my dad. He would get us…

Discerning is not something you do. It is a felt sense of alignment. Rightness. You have successfully discerned truth when the answer may, in fact, not be logical or make sense. Discernment is often illusive because our minds are very busy creating pros and cons list from which we predict…

Week 1 of camp completed. Whew… Masks… follow the arrows… sanitize, sanitize, sanitize. I miss actually seeing faces, I miss smiles. I miss hearing words the first time. I miss hugs. I miss trust. I miss connection. …

Truth wove through my mind in the early morning today after dreams filled with a critic and a champion. In this dream, the critic was in fact, supposed to be someone there to help me. But instead gave me impossible challenges and spoke in a condescending tone, pointing out my…