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How do you forgive injustice? Mass shootings. Wild Fires. Climate change. Racism. War. Misogyny. One million dead due Covid.  When I recently wrote on the topic of forgiveness, it was using the lens of family of origin. In sharing with a...

What’s the flavor of your anger? I was late to a monthly virtual gathering of fellow creatives last week. Catching me up, they said, “we’re exploring our mothers: the negative the positive.” As synchronicity would have it, I’d been listening to Soraya Chemaly’s book:...

How much resentment are you clinging to? I recently had a conversation with a colleague about co-creating my parents’ final chapters. We shared similar experiences of repeated socialized trauma.   I spoke on actively working to forgive the very people who...

How judgmental are you? Aloof, moody, mysterious, bad ass. Cats used to be my pet of preference. When my ex suggested we adopt a dog, I resistantly agreed. And when he and his daughter would laugh hysterically at Harvest’s silly antics, I would find myself judging:...

Growing up is required to enter into adulthood, so they say. It’s needed to be a fully functional, well versed, useful, educated and purposeful member of society. One who fulfills your civic and communal services. The training was clear: rules, protocols, parameters,...

Last week I came down with the “creeping crud.”  The stressors of traveling back and forth across the ocean to support my parents with the initial stages of moving into a medicalized nursing facility took a toll on my health.  I’ve been reflecting...