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Eyes of Wonder

The first thing I wrote in my journal this morning was “God, I am sad and weary.” Over the past few days, ultimately over the past few months, there has just been so much visceral hate. The hate stems from racism, the hate stems from the pigment in...

Learning to Love yourself

  Learning to love yourself…..what does that even mean?  It is tossed around in quotes, on TED talks, in self-improvement books but do we really have any clue as to what it means? Did we ever love ourselves? Did we ever think we were perfectly fine the way...

Park Bench Project

Who would you like to sit with on this park bench? I am not the first to ask this question and I definitely will not be the last. Some people look at this park bench and think they would like to talk to a world leader, a movie star or a loved one who has passed on. We...

Can we be the light?

  I had a friend stop by for a visit yesterday and during the course of this pandemic she has exposed herself to many media sources and has developed some new opinions, many I don’t agree with but it is not my place to judge her or her information. What I did...