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Gratitude is such a wonderful healing balm. One of the teachings that’s been working on me for years is this: The world I experience is the world I pay attention to. Wow. Is it really true? With years of personal research under my belt, I can say it seems to be so. And the more…

First, I want to say thank you for all of the loving, empathetic responses that came to us after what Erin wrote last week about her miscarriage. We have been deeply touched and grateful. Several times I have watched this short animation of a Brene Brown talk on empathy that Erin included last week, and…

2 weeks ago I began the process of having a miscarriage. My third. I was 9 weeks along this time, not quite ready to tell the world our news. Having been through miscarriages before, there’s a particular flavor of emotional intensity to this first-trimester time which I’m quite familiar with. In addition to the usual…

If you look around our house, you will find several piles that look like this… It is our current queue of inspiration. Erin just heard last week that kinesthetic learners pile rather than file. We both felt well validated… One book that has been in several piles around the house recently (we have a few…

Here in Salt Lake City, we are enjoying impossibly gorgeous days, replete with the scent of blossoms on the air, and everything seems to be bursting into life in full color. Ahhh. I love spring. I have 2 poems for you this morning. First this one, as the trees have been giving such gifts to…