I Need Reinforcements
Hello friends! I got so many lovely responses to last week’s newsletter, “Find your Own Beach,” about my pilgrimage to Mary Oliver’s ponds and beaches. Thank you for reading, thank you for telling me what [...]
Find Your Beach
I’m on a long-awaited pilgrimage to Provincetown, Massachusetts this week. My aunt has been visiting, working, or seasonally living here for 50 years, and for the last decade has been living in a condo that [...]
Bonus Day
One of my spiritual teachers recently said, “Disappointment is the chariot of the dharma.” Mic drop! I understand this to mean we learn the most when we learn to be with our disappointment. We are [...]
Inner and Outer Work
It’s hard to know what to write these days. I’m saddened and infuriated by the detention of local laborers in the last week, some of whom were the parents of my daughter’s classmates. I’m anxious [...]
I’m Tempted to be Passive
I came across this unbelievably great article this week by Julie Pham about conducting a “passiveness audit.” She outlines 7 levels of passive to passive aggressive behavior, particularly as she sees them manifest in Seattle. [...]
Five Years Later
It’s a little more than 5 years ago that the lockdown order came in Washington State. Every spring since, I’ve experienced a dip in my energy, like my body remembers the fear and isolation of [...]