Of all the meanings of Mothers Day, the one we most like to celebrate – if we can – is the love we have for our mothers and the joys we get by being mothers. Yet it is not all joy. If it were, it would mean less, because the contrast between joy and pain […]
Posts in category Transformation
and so the light returns
I grew up in a Christian home, in a time when being Christian was implied, and had a much milder, less militant meaning. I don’t actually know what my parents believed about God, I don’t remember it being a part of any conversations, although they must have answered my questions. I always had questions. We […]
the seeds of war
I was a teenager during the Vietnam war, and like many of my generation, I was passionately opposed to it, indeed to killing of any kind. I felt so strongly about it that, for some months anyway, I allowed myself to get sucked into arguing with my very Republican father about it every night after […]
choose the open heart way
It seems really hard to me, this one. There are so many things that I feel should be condemned – terrorism, poverty, illness. (And don’t get me started on insurance companies.) And yet I know that lingering on things that have negative or disgusting or abhorrent vibes simply sends more energy to those things. Then […]
think positive… or not?
Positive thinking, the power (or law) of attraction, stay on the sunny side – this has all been in the culture for a while now, and the push-back is starting to get some traction. Being ‘realistic’ is the new thing, and I have some thoughts about this. Firstly, the Law of Attraction et al is […]
between heaven and earth
Back when I was training to become an acupuncturist, I discovered something really cool. To help you understand the total cool-ness, you have to first picture this. We’d started our clinical work. This meant we were going to start to implement what we’d been studying – and boy, didn’t that just feel … inadequate. We’d […]
just … do it
There is a great, well, need from the people in our community to help those who are struggling with addictions of all sorts, and it seems like things progress like this: Awareness of the need – as addiction to pain meds and then to heroin is expanding into white, middle-class communities, more people are seeing […]
how do we do this well?
I know this will come as a shock to those of you who know me as a shy, silent type, but I got to do a lot of talking this weekend. Not just talking as in sharing a Chinese Medicine perspective on things people are experiencing, but talking and exploring topics that can best be […]
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