Empathy is the seed, but compassion is the flowering tree. ~Buddhist Teaching I recently went out for pizza with my friend Alli. Around us, there were three tables with infants of various ages. When one of the babies started crying, the other infants started wailing too, not from confusion, but from recognition. I noticed […]
Save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Dummy with the rapture and the revered in the right You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light Feeling pretty psyched It’s the end of the world as we know it ~R.E.M., It’s the End of the World as We Know It […]
“In the Chinese calendar there is an extra season that blooms between the spaces of late summer and autumn. Long Summer, as it’s called, is a liminal season — one that lasts the small handspan of time between the ending of August and the equinox arrival of fall. It is a sacred pause for integration. […]
I have a half-mile loop around my house that I use as a walking path. The rest of the 10 acres is wild: tall fescue grass dotted with coneflower, milkweed, wild sunflowers, and tiny yellow primrose. It’s also filled with chiggers, poison ivy, ticks, and snakes galore, so I admire its beauty from the relative […]
Every year, when Labor Day rolls around, I start thinking about oysters. Growing up, my family would vacation on Cumberland Island, a golden isle off the coast of the Georgia-Florida state line accessible only by boat. We went in the fall or early winter, oyster season for this part of the world. We followed the […]
There is reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend. ~James Baldwin, No Name in the Street Like many “gifted and talented” first daughters of my generation, I went through a Greek myth phase in middle school. The myths had it all […]
