Looking for Inspiration
I stood in line at a restaurant in Seattle recently with two books under my arms: Rebecca Solnit’s The Beginning Comes After the End and Terry Tempest Williams’ The Glorians. I had just purchased them at Elliot Bay Books and was going [...]
Becoming a Noticer
I have been so fortified by the stories being shared on our 40 Days of Generosity WhatsApp thread that some of you joined. As we have gone through our days looking for ways to be [...]
Dosing Tenderness
Hello friends! Some of you noticed I took a little break last week and reached out to ask if I was okay. That really tickled me. It is such an honor to be part of [...]
Narrowing my Aperture
Thank you to the 20 folks who’ve joined the seasonal “40 Days of Generosity” thread that I invited newsletter readers to last week. It’s wonderfully intimate and I find myself going through my days a little differently—how can I be in the flow [...]
Forty Days of Generosity
I’m going to be doing a little experiment. At the end of this newsletter, there’s an invitation to join me. Since returning from Liberia, I’ve been thinking so much about the healing power of generosity. Generosity is one of the Buddhist paramitas [...]
Doing for One what we Want to Do for All
Since coming home from Liberia and my visit to The Hope Project, I’ve had contradictory feelings living in me—sadness for a world that leaves people behind (our own country is a prime example of this [...]