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A season of change – and coming home.
Read more: A season of change – and coming home.The past several months have been full. I finished writing and publishing Winds of Change, the second book in the Keeper of the Clearing series. Alongside that, Larry and I made a significant life change — we returned to Baker City, Oregon, a town we have loved for years and where many of our closest…
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In the Flow
Read more: In the FlowThere is a kind of attention that isn’t effort. It’s the state you enter when you’re wholly engaged in making something, when the thinking mind steps back and the hands know what to do. Contemplative practice has a name for it: mindfulness. Not the app-version, but actual present-moment awareness. Full contact with what is happening…
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Something New is Growing and I Want You to Be Part of It
Read more: Something New is Growing and I Want You to Be Part of ItIf you’ve been following along for a while, you know that making things has always been at the center of what I do. Candles. Soap. Flowers. Whatever the medium, the impulse has always been the same: to take raw materials and turn them into something worth holding.Three weeks ago Larry and I made a big…
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The Face in the Mirror
Read more: The Face in the MirrorHave you ever passed a mirror and caught a face looking back at you — so familiar you’ve stopped really seeing it? You know the features. You’ve worn them your whole life. But for just a moment, something pauses. Something looks.Who is that, exactly?We live in a culture that urges us constantly toward self-care. Protect…
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Just Another Day
Read more: Just Another DayYesterday morning, Larry and I watched a man die.We didn’t plan for that. We woke the way most of us do, moving through the quiet early rhythms of a day we assumed would unfold like any other. Instead, we stood at our window and watched medics perform CPR on a man lying on the ground.…
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Organization as a Mindfulness Practice
Read more: Organization as a Mindfulness PracticeSince receiving my autism diagnosis, so much about how I move through the world has started to make sense. The hyperfocus. The pattern recognition. The deep need for things to have order and a place to belong.One of the genuine gifts that comes with how my mind works is a drive toward order that feels…
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To Be AND Not To Be, That Is the Answer
Read more: To Be AND Not To Be, That Is the AnswerWhether something waits for us on the other side of this life is one of the oldest and most personal questions a human being can carry. This is not an attempt to answer it. People of deep faith and people of none have both looked honestly at existence and come to different conclusions, and that…
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You Don’t Have To March To Matter
Read more: You Don’t Have To March To MatterThere is a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a group of macaque monkeys on a small Japanese island. Researchers observed that when one monkey learned to wash sweet potatoes before eating them, others nearby began to do the same. The behavior spread slowly, then reached some kind of threshold, and suddenly the practice appeared in populations…
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A Letter To Our Kids: What We’ve Learned About Retirement Now That We’ve Arrived
Read more: A Letter To Our Kids: What We’ve Learned About Retirement Now That We’ve ArrivedTo our children and future generations: We want to begin this note to you with a large dose of humility and transparency. We were ill-prepared in our own lives to ask the right financial questions with wisdom. We lived during a time when the prevailing American mindset was to live for today and trust that…
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