My tale begins at Dayton International Airport on July 4. My friends Sharon and Kathryn came for a visit. Sharon drove in from Pittsburgh and arrived in time to accompany me to the airport to pick up Kathryn, who flew in from Wichita. Sharon and I were in a small area of the airport as […]
Acceptance
The Greatest Love of All
“Nicole is lucky to have you for a mother. You show her great love.” These are words I frequently hear from those who know the lengths to which I go to find resources for her. I see this as my responsibility. I know it is a loving action, but I have the skills to do […]
You Make Sense to Me — A Priceless Gift
Oprah Winfrey often says that what she learned in her twenty-five years as a talk-show host is that people want the same thing — we want to be heard and understood … we want to know that we make sense to someone. In my past life (1993-2012), one of the many professional hats I wore was as […]
Rare Resilience
“Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” ~Zen Proverb My experience at the Myotonic Dystrophy Conference on Saturday, October 22, reminded me of this Zen proverb. The morning was full of hope as the doctors and researchers enlightened us about the progress they are making. In their work, […]
The Wisdom of the Body
“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream. ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes For much of my […]
And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
“Most of Jesus’ teachings are completely incomprehensible from a first-half-of-life perspective.” Richard Rohr In the first half of my life, I bristled whenever I heard The Serenity Prayer. Rohr points out that in the first-half-of-life, we have other developmental tasks to attend to and thus are unable to surrender and let go of the […]
