This piece was written from within an experience rather than about it. It explores what happens at the edge between seeing and being seen, individuality and surrender. You are invited to read not for meaning alone, but for resonance. After deciding “Danced life with grace and beauty” would be placed on my gravestone, I put […]
Enough—But Is It Enough? Read More »
On Grief, We-Space, and the Story We Must Learn to Tell. I cry every time I watch the news. Far away from Minnesota, in a quiet little town, in a county that is “right,” I am hurt daily.My body feels bitten up.My heart is grieving.My spirit grows impatient. Enough. But is it enough? Are we—the
The Cost of Living Is Not What We Think Read More »
Something in our language has gone numb. We speak of the cost of living as if life itself were the problem—as if breathing, eating, caring, aging, and belonging were excesses we must justify. Everyone knows the phrase.Almost no one questions it. Yet language shapes perception, and perception shapes what we allow. When we say the
The Experience — the World of Sensing Read More »
Our senses give us a direct experience of life — before thought, before perception, before interpretation, before the world tells us who we should be. How we touch and are touched.How we look and how we see.How we move, speak, listen.The softness in our voice.The strength in our bones. These experiences are full, rich, satisfying
Returning to My Roots, Returning to You Read More »
“Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Learned, and Why I’m Returning Now” For a long while, I lived through great successes and quiet failures, through days of stillness and moments of elation that no words can hold. And now, standing in the winter of my life, when I look back at the weaving of ups and
