If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy     I am always amazed in the spring when plants that seemingly are faced with every adversity: cold, strangling weeds, neglect, drought, continue to sprout up in places that, for them, have optimal conditions for life. 

“We’re more than meat puppets doing errands” Elizabeth Gilbert   This is a departure from my usual blab about the mind, but you’ll see how it’s all connected. Befriending your body is one of the most transformative and life-giving things you can do. We have been disconnected from our bodies, sometimes out of necessity, and

  Welcome to the week! As I found myself running around and preparing for the upcoming week and new events that are happening, on my list was to visit my aging father in the care home where he lives. Now, having lost one parent to Alzheimers already and now my father, mostly uncommunicative and unresponsive,