Racial Injustices
What’s taking place across our country is a culmination, has collective momentum and is painfully long overdue.It challenges me as a person of white privilege to listen carefully, acknowledge and root out my internalized racism and see my complicity in the unjust, inequitable systems I benefit from… There has been an unforgivable complacency with this violence. Now, the […]
Incubating
Like it or not, ready or not, we are all in the midst of an intense transformation – personally, societally, globally. The way we emerge from this is yet to be determined. How will we respond to this new reality? Will we choose to redirect, reprioritize, realign our lives differently? Will we be moved by […]
Love in Action
During this pandemic, I have definitely been guilty of looking at the barren photos of downtown Seattle or the deserted Pike Place market or the too quiet neighborhoods and seeing only the stark evidence of this crisis. I realize that I have been viewing the proverbial glass as much more than just half empty. Who […]
Importance of Routine
When living in difficult circumstances, create a healthy routine. This is the consistent recommendation, whether from Scott Kelly, the astronaut that lived at the International Space station for a year or my husband who spent the same amount of time wintering over in the inhospitable terrain of Antarctica. With this pandemic, the world has been […]
In the Face of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is extremely difficult for us human beings. We want to know what is going to happen. We want to know what to expect. We want to know when it will all be over. What it boils down to: we want the illusion of control. As much as we might, at times, feel in a […]
