“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” –Elizabeth Stone As someone who has deeply enjoyed working with kids since being a kid myself, I always knew and felt excited to have a few of my own. Yet, even […]
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The Beginnings and Endings are Only Illusions: Life After Death and the End of Our Suffering
When is it that our lives begin? Is it the instant of conception, the day of our birth, or the first memory we have of our childhood? Or maybe we count our beginnings each morning, as the day begins anew. Some people believe their life begins when their heart finds another to hold its hand […]
Intuition, Inspiration, Interconnection
Intuition. That little voice in your head. A feeling in your gut. The strange sense in your chest and heart. Visions or dreams which seem so very real you can almost touch them. However your intuition notifies you, it’s there, always. Whether you listen to your inner guidance or not, I believe we always have […]
Let Go… And Love Eachother
Rewind Marathon Monday, April 2010. After many hours and miles of training, my little sister decided to participate in all 26.2 miles of Boston’s marathon for the first time. I was a proud sister on that day and hoped that she would continue to participate, raising money for local charities. One year later, her goal […]
Does Time Really Exist: Speculations on Living in the Now
One topic that I find myself revisiting again and again is the issue of time. I heard once that time truly does not exist, but that it continues to fool us every hour of every day into thinking that it’s really a thing, no matter how invisible it seems. I try to remind myself how […]
Different, Yet Still The Same
In the wake of two thousand and twelve comes a new way for me to recreate myself and the world through words: a new blog. A wedding, with a new name added to the old. A new husband, although I’m pretty sure he is the same as before I married him. A new job at […]