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Getting Unstuck from Samsara with the Help of John Milton

Sep 14, 20224 min read 116 views

An old friend shared an insightful comment about my last post, in which I downplayed my inner growth from my 20s and 30s because I thought I didn’t...

Getting Unstuck from Samsara with the Help of John Milton

How To Love The Passage of Time

Sep 6, 20223 min read 250 views

Envisioning the future again after loss · Recently I've started to understand the narrator of the Talking Heads love song, "This Must Be The Place." The...

How To Love The Passage of Time

The Closet Full of Flowers

Aug 2, 202215 min read 73 views

Sorting Through Fragments of My Mother · One of the decisions my mother made before she died—one I continue to find admirable—was to landscape the...

The Closet Full of Flowers

Fatherless on Father’s Day

May 23, 20223 min read 94 views

Finding the courage to grieve my father and finding new forms of love · My father’s name was Kenneth; he also answered to Dr. Russ, Ken, Kenny, and Dad....

Fatherless on Father’s Day

Sauntering

Mar 30, 20224 min read 54 views

In my shelter-at-home days in March of 2020, before the WHO had even announced that COVID-19 was officially a pandemic, I got in the habit of taking...

Sauntering