Hearing Yourself Again
Hello friends! I have a proposal for you: as 2023 begins, can you slip away for a little bit? Can you find a quiet place and a quiet few hours [...]
Fun in 2023
Maybe I’m just paying more attention this year but is anyone else sick of New Year’s resolutions talk?! NPR says to set SMART goals--strategic, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. They [...]
Favorite Books of 2022
Favorite Books of 2022 I finally realized something last year—I don’t sit still unless I am reading. And maybe that’s one of the primary functions it has served in my [...]
Serving and Savoring
“Each morning I wake up torn between the desire to serve the world and to savor it. This makes it difficult to plan the day.”- EB White Doesn’t this quote [...]
Winter Inspiration
I joke that my least-favorite situation is feeling uninspired. “Inspire” from the Latin “in” (into) + “spirae” (breath) has two meanings: To fill someone with the urge or ability to [...]
Ambivalence is a Drag
In Priya Parker’s excellent newsletter this week, she talks about the “Art of Guesting” during the holidays, and how to be in discernment about what we say yes and no [...]
Wake-Up Call
Recently I listened to Rob Bell on this podcast, talking about a concussion he got while surfing. I had wondered why he’d been so quiet lately. Turns out, his accident [...]
Celebrating Truthsgiving
Hello, friends. I’ve got a longer reflection this week, and I hope you’ll hang in there for it. For the past several years, I have grown increasingly uncomfortable celebrating Thanksgiving. [...]
Stressless Holidays are a Fantasy
My dad and brother-in-law work with unhoused people, and they tell me those precious souls don’t like the holidays. This season highlights all the ways their lives are not the [...]
Unsubscribes and Other Gifts of Rejection
I want people to love me. More than that, I want them to like me. I want them to think I’m funny, smart, helpful, wise, kind, intuitive, quick-witted. I want [...]