The Perspective of Suffering
Forgetting My Words
Dearest Friend, Let me tell you about the time I lost my mind. To tell you the truth, it happens all the time. My highly successful selective amnesia has erased the painful peaks of heartbreak, childbirth, and too many martinis, leaving only benign flatlands that are much easier to navigate. Multiple times a…
Growing Wings
The Countdown
Dearest Friend, Happy Mother’s Day to all of you who’ve either been or had a mother! Whatever that experience means for you, it is certainly a shared thread between every person on this planet. My beautiful girl and I started celebrating on Saturday, and I’m thinking TWO days is a much more appropriate amount of…
A Slick Protective Coating
I have dreamed of being dunked in a huge vat of Teflon. Yes, I understand it’s gruesomely toxic, but still… Wouldn’t it be nice to be impervious? To be completely protected from any possible harm, accidental or not? To wipe yourself clean after any experience without any scars or marks left behind? Sometimes I…
The Big Game
Please excuse this interruption to your regularly scheduled programming. (Don’t worry. Today’s post is short and sweet to get you back to your big screen and crunchy snacks.) A certain game might be front of mind for you today, but I’m talking about the REAL game… called LIFE. (Not the board game, either.) No balls,…
Secret Ingredients
The Generosity of Sadness
One of my favorite healers (and human beings) used the phrase ‘generosity of sadness’ in our last conversation. I thought it was so poetic and beautiful that I grabbed the closest notepad and wrote it down. I didn’t know what it meant. Perhaps I still don’t. But it felt like something in my mouth demanding…
Addiction to Suffering
There was a point in my spiritual journey where I found myself highly disturbed by the people around me. No, not the ‘regular’ people of everyday life… the angry driver, the ignorant telemarketer, the rude flight attendant. I was annoyed by the people in the various spiritual communities I had joined. I felt incredibly triggered,…
Naked and Unafraid
