Who am I?

February 20, 2026 by 9 Comments

I am many things
Don’t put me in a bucket of you’re choosing
I am diverse, a little bit of a lot of things

I seek the truth wherever it lies
The truth about I like and don’t like

Even when I don’t like what I’m seeing
Even about me
I am that too

It’s easier to attach and be one thing,
to believe strongly in one thing.

But easy doesn’t reflect my true self,
nor the diversity of all things
So I am grateful.

With every change
Inner and outer

I grow more aware, knowing
I am
We are

One

In honor of the anniversary of my birth.

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MLK

January 19, 2026 by

“On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dr. King told the audience that if God had let him choose any era in which to live, he would have chosen the one in which he had landed. “Now, that’s a strange statement to make,” King went on, “because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” Dr. King said that he felt blessed to live in an era when people had finally woken up and were working together for freedom and economic justice. ” from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American, Jan. 18, 2026

We have a ways to go, but may we work together for freedom, economic justice and the awareness that we are in this together as one. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Learn to love yourself.

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Thoughts going into 2026

January 9, 2026 by

We’re in this together

Our life journeys weave through time: intersecting, moving away, hiding, coming together, falling behind, moving ahead.
Some of us learn along the way, others get stuck in learned patterns and beliefs.
Some are trapped in the prisons of their own or other’s making.
Yet still, we’re all on the journey home.
We are in this together.

May I move forward with compassion not judgement.
May I be open to co-creating what wants to be born.
Releasing the fear of something different, of what I thought I needed.
May I move forward with self-care not selfishness.
May I truly love and care for ALL life.

Here’s to a new year.

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Holidays

December 13, 2025 by

… Bob Dylan, in a 1960 interview with Rolling Stone*, 28-years-old and already looking back sagely:
“Boy, I hurried… I hurried for a long time. I’m sorry I did. All the time you’re hurrying, you’re not really as aware as you should be. You’re trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?”

It’s Christmas! People are scurrying to buy last minute presents, fit in all the family and friend gatherings, attend concerts and church events, and deal with the crazy weather predictions.

Slowing down and letting it happen might be a challenge but it may also be the answer to enjoying the Holidays. Letting yourself be more aware of and present to your experience.

Slowing down as in noticing your breathing. Slowing down as in tasting that cookie you’re eating. Relaxing, knowing you’ll get to the next place in perfect time. Slowing down and smiling at those around you.

My wish for you: May your Holidays unfold in perfect peace, with love, and anchored in the knowing that it is all happening perfectly.

*improvisedlife.com Improvised Life: a treasury of inspiring ideas

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Thanks-giving

November 15, 2025 by

If you tell someone what to do,
who hasn’t asked
You’re denying their agency.

The world doesn’t need saving
Neither do people
They need love

Love accepts them
Love is the best you
Love leads you

To enhance their well-being
To work for justice for all
To co-create what’s next

Love shows up. The softening of your heart, the relaxing of your body, the voice of the genuine within.

Its Thanksgiving time….
We are loved
We are love
Love.

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I Wait

August 23, 2025 by

The words won’t come
What am I waiting for?
What am I resisting?

If answers were easy
We’d skip through life
But the potholes stop us

Pot holes, rabbit holes
Something linked to the past
That keeps us tied

Conditioning by others
There is no right answer
No guarantee of success

Just peace in the now.

I being drawn to not doing. As if this is the time to breath.
Accept that reading a book is a legitimate way to spend my time. Pull weeds. Sit on the old tree stump and feel myself flowing into the earth. It it enough?

Maybe, just maybe, yes! I don’t have to earn my worth.

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Ode to a Tree

May 14, 2025 by

How do you say goodbye to a tree
One that has sheltered you from the sun
Whose roots have mingled with the the earth
Communicating through fungus to other trees
Whose leaves absorbed water, touched the sky
A tree that’s lived it’s life interacting
with everything and everyone around it

How do you say goodbye to a tree
Whose anchored presence calmed you
Who was home to insects, squirrels, birds
Who embodied the interdependence
of all life, giving and receiving
How do you say goodbye

Maybe you don’t,
Instead seek to embody
the tree’s giving and receiving
Learn about your interconnection with all life
And maybe, with love and gratitude,
Plant another one.

(The Pin Oak was diagnosed with Bacterial Leaf Scorch in 2015. It lasted longer then they predicted. We kept pruning the dead limbs until we couldn’t anymore.)

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My Birthday

February 22, 2025 by

I was held…
caring wishes, cards
a lunch
a garden solar lantern
expressions of appreciation
Our oneness, my belonging

May I remember
reach out, connect
It’s ok to be awkward
OK to be me

It’s not OK to stay separate out of
fear and shame.
Strong back, open heart

Welcome my friends,
those I know and
those to come

Welcome

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Picture from Tiffany Shlain, Declaration of Interdependence

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Ode to Love

February 13, 2025 by

What’s love got to do with it?
Old Tina asked
You know,

when I‘m
running my hand down
your soft back, relaxing, sighing
while you gently purr.

when I‘m
crying, reading
about someone
hurt, attacked, Dehumanized…

when I‘m
looking at the sky, jaw dropped
at the everyday awesomeness
of changing clouds and sun

when I‘m
feeling Joyful at seeing
a crown of purple violets
growing in the middle of the first snow

when I‘m
showing up and
holding the space
for you to do the same

What’s love got to do with it?
Everything!

To love!
Our connection
Our Life

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The Closing of a Year

December 29, 2024 by

It’s the end of the year. Here are some words of wisdom I’m taking with me.

Love is for giving.
Forgiving is Love.

All systems that isolate and separate are incomplete and misleading.

Dignity is the capacity to feel my inherent value simply because I exist. Dignity is the seat of agency, of choice.

To be resilient is to be engaged, creative, adaptive and relational.

If a man/woman has shown you who he/she is, why would you expect/want him/her to change? Let them be.

The most important law of the Universe is the law of love because it about relationship. Our Universe is innately related, every part to every other part, and to the whole.
…The Breath of the Universe, Dr.Jude Carrivan

Every act/thought has a consequence to the whole.
I need to be responsible for the energy I bring into a space.

Listen for what is mine to do….and do it.

In Joy Life!

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