Permission to Feel

What strategies do you use to process your painful emotions? Can you label them? Do you know what sadness feels like? Do you know how fear feels? What does anger do to your insides? Sad, mad, glad, and fear. Those are often considered the four basic categories of emotions. Labeling is the first step. A …

Thanksgiving, A to Z

  Papa-God, You who are from the beginning and who have no end, I thank you at this time of thanksgiving for apple crisp and broccoli, for cabbage and dandelions. I love your egrets and your falcons inspire me. Your goodness surrounds me. Honesty and imagination join to create your joy in my heart. Kindness …

Long-Standing Shelters

How long do you expect the house you live in to stand? I walked by a twenty-year-old Cape Cod this morning, already looking shabby. Our hundred year old bungalow, with lots of loving attention, looks better. A key difference is the materials. The Cape Cod is sided in vinyl, our cottage is painted redwood, the …