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Fail Better: Break the Sound Barrier
“The question is, are you going to grow or are you going to just stay as you are out of fear and waste your precious human life by status quo-ing instead of being willing to break the sound barrier?”...
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Part II: A Drip of Life
If you have not read part one, no worries. It was long ago and far away. There is no longer a flood outside my door but the leaks persist, now inside rather than outside. I am a privileged, old white...
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Rest, Part I: The Flood Outside My Door
It was just Sunday noon and the excited voices outside my apartment followed by a sharp rap on each door meant emergency. Out of dread rather than curiosity, I opened my door. Without taking a step...
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Zen Meets a Boojum with Snark
Alan Watts tells a story about translating Zen texts into English and the selecting of those books. He consulted a Zen master who found the translation idea pretty preposterous, particularly the...
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When Zero Was Not a Number
In the woods outside my window, it seems like nothing will stop this growing of green and the flurry of flashy red cardinals as they prepare their nests with their olive brown mates, who blend...
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A Murderer Among Us
A murderer lives in my apartment complex and has for the last eight years. Marie stomped her 82-year-old mother to death, after throwing her down the stairs. Marie then encircled her mother’s body with...
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All Right Will Never Be the Same
My primary care physician and I are having our usual conversation when she says, “If you didn’t do what you are doing, you would not be living on your own. Others would be caring for you.” “Thank you”...
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Every Time He Shakes His Tail
I was in my late 30s, finishing my Master of Arts thesis, when I finally understood writing as a process. Admittedly, it sounds silly but in 1986, the “how-to” of writing was threatening an academic...
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The Peace in Thinking Bigger
Who is not looking to live with peace of mind, to rest in the reality of every day, to frustrate the frenzy in favor of calm. No one wants to ride the roller coaster forever. It’s exhausting. My way is...
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Are We Americans?
I write about change, which I do not find easy nor do most. We resist before we act, hoping not to have to change our lives. It always means some kind of loss but the longer we avert our eyes, the...
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One Storm at a Time
These past two weeks have been a bit of a hurricane for me, a storm within a storm but today’s post focuses on Hurricane Irma. She took her time crossing Florida and many parts of the state are...
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No Ground Beneath My Feet
I wonder how many times letting go is accepting what has already gone. When reading a book, I have been known to pause at the end of a chapter. I like to sit with good writing and let it wash over me....
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Sitting Silence
In times of loss, I have always gone silent. To me, silence has always been a response but it is only in these later years that I learned to sit silence as a response to loss. Certainly, silence has...
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Aiming for Even…With Wheels
Every post that appears on this blog bears little resemblance to its initial version. In life, there are best laid plans and then there is what happens. However, this post is different than any...
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Looking Through the Lens of Limitation
For nearly four decades, I viewed disability through a lens of limitation. For me, that shutter had only two settings, open or closed, a.k.a. able or disabled. Some years, I fully embraced the label of...
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As My Laundry Lay Drying and Other Tools of the Trade
Note ER Catnip Toy I did not immediately recognize the connection between the way I dry laundry and the way I write. There is a bit of forever about the time it takes damp laundry to dry in a...
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Reflections: A Stitch in Time
Every moment we experience is a stitch in time sewn into a series of scenes. This is the tapestry of a lifetime, a collage of experiences on what it is to be human. If used wisely, this rich and...
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Bits and Pieces: The Reality We Have
If we live in the moment, we work with the reality we have. Sounds good, if a bit obvious or perhaps platitudinous. Yet, it seems the way to experience the best of what is being offered. And if we are...
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The Expedition of No Return
“You are one injury away from becoming a quadriplegic.” “Now, you are not pregnant, right?” Both of these sentences are great openers for blog posts. Certainly, each could be its own blog post. Yet,...
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On Expedition….
It is time for me to explore the latest results of impermanence–physically and emotionally–so there will be a pause in posts. It really is an expedition, of sorts, this exploration of my mind and body...
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