Category Archives: spirituality
The Book of Job
“Fine. No books tonight, Sören. I love you. Good night.” Sören scrunches his sandy eyebrows and puckers his lips. With his overgrown, homemade haircut he looks like a Beatle with some serious indigestion. “Not fair!” My persecuted rock star has spent the last year rehearsing his intonation, frustration, connotation, and implication on the frets of a single (…) MORE »
A PRAYER FOR HER LIFE – A Short Story
“Lord, please take care of her. She’s so frail…” I falter and don’t know what else to say. If God knows my deepest thoughts, why do I ever bother trying to pray? Then I think of my husband and his sister, Lee. The way she clung to me in the airport last night. “At least, (…) MORE »
Seed Saving
Buddhists teach that attachment is not useful, causes suffering. I am not Buddhist but I struggle with this belief because I am a saver—I like to keep, preserve. Remember. And I am also a keeper of things out of sheer pragmatism. I could need them later. But today, today my mother showed me a different way—that (…) MORE »
Awakening
There were the “Well, I think…” years. Then came, “I was just reading this book….” After graduate school and before children came the era of, “I was listening to NPR and….” Now, my contributions to the few adult conversations I manage to have begin with, “My counselor and I were just talking about….” I’m too (…) MORE »
Starting Somewhere
You have to start somewhere. That’s the line that’s on repeat in my head today. I’ve been reading The Mists of Avalon for the last couple of months. In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s a cult classic re-telling of the Arthurian Legend from the perspective of the women. I just finished the last (…) MORE »
Love Letter from You
Dear beloved one, I see you there, I feel your struggle. I know how hard you have been trying to be a good mother. As you have grown up, many conflicting messages have been presented to you by your culture about the proper way to care for children, and some of those messages have been (…) MORE »
