Our guest blogger this week reminded us to believe in the beauty of our dreams. The Great Wall of China was a dream originally conceived by Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the third century B.C. as a way to…
This guest blog brings you the thinking of New York Times best-selling author Dr. Stephen Post on finding your creative and compassionate calling. His long career as a researcher, public speaker and professor has given him deep insights into this topic, and he consistently eschews easy answers to inherently complex…
Many of us are suffering in the midst of COVID, a stagnant economy, raging wildfires, hurricanes and social/political upheaval. How often have I recently seen these words on social media “I am so done with 2020!” I can easily be pulled into that thinking. Our wildfires in Oregon have destroyed…
In this week’s blogs, our guest Kim Colegrove has inspired us by sharing her personal story about transforming grief and suffering into compassionate action. She ended her blog with, “If you feel inspired or motivated to activate your grief, here are some ideas.” She lists…
The abandonment and loss I’ve experienced in my life caused me to cultivate a belief that I could never fully depend on or trust others, because the people who were supposed to love, support and care for me the most, had not, and this left me feeling unwanted, unworthy and…
Today’s guest on our podcast Kim Colegrove lost her husband David to suicide in 2014, less than three months after he retired from a 30-year law enforcement career. She created The PauseFirst Project, which we’ll talk about, to honor David’s…
My Father with his Newest Grandchild This is an excerpt from my new book Nothing Bad Between Us: Around midnight, with considerable trepidation, Steve walked past the pump house and across the yard the short distance to Mom and Dad’s new house…
Our Former River Property – All that Remains is a Chimney In the coming weeks and months, my guests in our upcoming series on Choosing Compassion over Fear will be sharing their personal stories. My teacher Fr. Richard tells me that there are…
My Grandsons, Playing Teppich This week’s blogs have been about learning to be in that “wondering place,” at peace with not knowing what lies ahead. I’d like to tell you a short story. When I was young, my…
Front Patio of Our Desert Home In the northern hemisphere, fall is in the air. Our days are getting shorter. Low, slanting rays of sunlight are replacing the full-on beams of high summer. The lengthened shadows foretell the steady progression toward the darkness of winter. In nature, fall is a…