"There should always be a healthy tension between the life we have settled for and the desires that still call us." John O'Donohue One of the messages that threads this website together is my voice saying, you do enough, you are enough, you don't need MORE. When I first got it in my head to …
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For my husband’s graduate degree, we moved to Indiana. It wasn’t long before we felt the pull. The tug toward an elevated point of view. After four years of college on the bench of the Rocky Mountains, we’d gotten used to being able to hike or drive to amazing vista points. But now, we found …
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"I guess I need to de-stress," I said to my husband. "Dial it down a bit." In that exact moment it occurred to me that maybe the hot water bottle on my shoulders and the stress I was describing weren't separate, weren't incidental. Maybe my body was playing out the stress that originated in my …
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"I feel like I have too many balls in the air, but I can't set any of them down." A friend told me this recently, in gulping breaths, as we jogged side-by-side on treadmills at the gym. My stomach immediately dropped with the memory of feeling that same way just a couple of years ago. Many …
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Fixating on how fast you can run or how much you can produce is like paying 60 dollars for a lifetime of mouth-watering barbecue samples. It's all well and good until you find two week's worth of chicken thighs on your front porch. ...Or a decade's worth of deteriorating relationships, mounting …
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"Gladys?" I asked as I unlocked her door and stepped inside her dim apartment. "I'm in bed!" she called. I walked down the hall and turned the corner to see my 85-year-old neighbor roll her eyes in the direction of her legs, saying: "I can't get out. The paramedics will be here soon. Will you …
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