I went on my first yoga retreat in the 1990s, to a somewhat stoic place in the majestic Berkshire Mountains. At the time, I was a recent...

Openness is a gift Without end Lacking parameters I can Freely explore all that is Available to me In this world, This vast, expansive...

The sun is rising in the west. The world is upside down and Nothing makes sense. I dream of green sunsets Following days imbued with...

The freedom to lie, The freedom to steal, The freedom to kill, Freedom for a few. The freedom to love, The freedom to heal, The freedom...

I thought I had Discovered myself Within a place That resonated with my Vision and my Passion I went there to be loved and accepted Only...

The beautifully mysterious subjectivity of mental illness is too often lost in the noise of objective, authoritarian voices that dominate...

Going home to a place that Faded away With time, with life, with age Survival is death. The heavens in my eyes opened up Flooding me...

Intentional carelessness is the act of purposefully choosing not to attach ourselves to what happens or to what happens as a result of...

How can we appreciate the roses When our bread is nearly gone When our bread was Stolen from us last week. How can we feel any happiness...

What happens in our minds and our actions are mutually influential. Our minds offer us the freedom to be open, continually metamorphic,...

Recently, as I presented a casserole made for my grandmother out of a certain canned spare animal parts product, with love as only such a...

The safety of my home Is a luxury I may no longer Be able to experience Is a privilege that may soon be Lost to me forever. As I sit here...

You haven’t heard a lot from me over the past year. I won’t bore you with excuses, except to let you know that I experienced a prolonged...

Last year, I made a pact with a fellow friend, who shared with me the momentous occasion of turning 40, to do 40 things to celebrate this...

The first day of school was always a day met, for me, with both eager anticipation and deep despair. While it was a joy to get dressed...

As a young woman, I spent a lot of time in the library. It was more than a place to kill a few hours every day in-between school and...

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