This Monday’s poem is Stay by Jan Richardson. Richardson is an artist, a poet, and an ordained minister. I just discovered she grew up not far from where I live, Gainesville, Florida. Her family has lived here for generations, and she continues to live in Florida,...
“Group therapy was the most extraordinary experience I’ve ever participated in.” — Paul Solotaroff, Author of Group: Six People In Search Of A Life Therapy is mysterious, with both its promise of and requirement for privacy and confidentiality. If you’ve...
Happy Wednesday! Today’s pod choice is Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman. Some of you know Dax from the show Parenthood; I know him as Kristin Bell’s husband (she of The Good Place). Armchair Expert “celebrates the messiness of being human.”...
Welcome to week 5 (6?) of our U.S. slice of the world pandemic. I’ve lost track. As always, I’m looking at poetry on Mondays, podcasts on Wednesdays, and books on Fridays, for words and conversations that give me perspective and sustenance as we travel through this...
Happy Friday! Each Friday I’m sharing a book I’ve loved, one I think may be interesting/helpful/relevant/on topic (as we move into a much longer period of self-quarantine and distancing than any of us thought back in March). Words — poetry, spoken, or on the page —...
I’m thinking a lot about loneliness. And solitude. And connection. You too? We’re not alone. Dr. Vivek Murthy, former Surgeon General of the United States just wrote a book, Together: the Healing Power of Social Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. He spoke...
To Be Of Use — by Marge Piercy The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like...
Happy Friday of the world’s longest week. Was this the world’s longest week? It seemed like it. Maybe the loooong week got me thinking about a more bite-sized book. Or at least one with short chapters you can read in small doses as the mood hits you. I thought...
Hello Everyone, Don’t know about you, but this week has felt like the longest one yet. I hear about fatigue setting in everywhere… fatigue from sitting in the chair looking at a screen in unsatisfying attempts to connect, fatigue with too much connection (entire...