Recently my husband and I were talking about times in our lives when we were living on shoestrings and hope. Our futures were as wide as an ocean. We were ready to swim across it's turbulent waters. Things seemed simpler. Those times were unfettered by the weightiness of retirement decisions, saving enough, staving off the … Continue reading Living Providentially

Considered a Rhineland mystic, St. Hildegard is one of the 4 women doctors of the Catholic church—A German Benedictine abbess, artist, writer, composer, medicinal healer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She lived during the horrific Black plague, religious inquisitions and social diseases of the Medieval age, when life was short and poor (25 years average). Most … Continue reading Hildegard of Bingen

Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here … Continue reading Nobody, but nobody…

  "We are witnessing [a world on fire]...the phoenix falling into the ashes and rising again. We are participants...intimately connected to this planet, and part of a cycle of evolution, a reshuffling of how we will engage with global life...it is a time of healing and inner transformation, awakening. Hopefully it brings out the very … Continue reading Restarting the World

  Recently, a friend of mine wrote some wise words. Reminding us that we are not the first, nor shall we be the last to experience pandemic disease, social unrest, violence, wars, calamities in our lifetimes. Sometimes it helps to put things in perspective. We have such a limited notion of time. We are quick … Continue reading Perspective