A Soft Place to Land

“Silence is not the absence of something , but the presence of everything.”- Gordon Hempton I remember first discovering the existence of the Hoh Rainforest in Washington state when I was in my early 20’s. I cannot remember if I read about it or if someone I knew told...

The Art of Letting Go and of Holding On

“YOU CAN’T LEARN THAT WHICH YOU THINK YOU ALREADY KNOW” – Epictetus In my April newsletter I wrote about late bloomers; the late blooming tulips and my own late blooming self.  Now it is Autumn and on a recent hike I looked up and noticed that among...

The Balance between Darkness and Light

To Know the Dark- To go into the dark with a light is to know the light To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too , blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. -Wendell Berry Oh, how we look towards the light! It is...

Mind the Gap

Welcome to all the beautiful opportunities awaiting us as we begin again in 2025. This year I am focusing on the opportunity to be more still and notice when I can soften into the space between my busyness and tasks in work and life. I am excited for my “work” to be...

Energy Investment

A friend of mine was recently talking about investing money and as she was speaking, I began to think of another type of investment. Energy investment. If we do not invest our precious energy wisely , we can lose something much more precious than what is in our...