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The Greek God Pan, Pandemic, & Nature’s Healing Balm
My email feed and Facebook page burn with coronavirus news and magic ways to avoid…
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We’ll Find a New Way of Living, We’ll Find a Way of Forgiving
I dropped into a Deep Well of Grief this morning. I grieved for dreams shattered,…
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When Only Kindness Makes Sense
Just before our fortieth wedding anniversary in 2008, I drive my husband Vic to Strong…
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Choose What You Love
I lie in the dark in my lover’s arms listening to his slow sleeping breath.…
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Dreaming the Earth Mother, Searching for Ground
I’ve always felt grounded, sturdy in my hiking boots on a challenging trail, but there…
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When Joy Breaks Through Grief
In 2010, eighteen months after my husband died, I longed for relief from constant sorrow,…
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Artemis Adopts a Pup: A Fanciful Ancient Greek Diary
September I've had dogs all my life, so I should know how to raise them.…
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When We Were Almost Poor
“I hear a baby calling,” I said to my husband Vic in 1970. After a…
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Here Comes the Sun
It won't be long before the Earth is tinged with color in the snowy land…
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How to Build a Heart Fire
The sky darkened from dusk to inky blue. Disco the sweet black pup became an…