Hope

Definition: to cherish the outcome of desire’s good. — The Web’s Brainy Dictionary Can we really define hope? Theologists and poets through the centuries have tried. Perhaps we should accept Emily Dickinson’s enduring abstraction: Hope is the thing with feathers...

When Heart Speaks … Heart Listens

Dear Friends, Voice is at the heart of our work and relationships. I have created two unique learning opportunities of spoken word for you: Write Your Way to Forgiveness and Peace An online seminar of poems, stories, and writing exercises exploring anger and...

What Perishes Is Not Always Lost

What Perishes Is Not Always Lost Winter As a Time of Survival and Resilience    In her book Housekeeping, Marilynn Robinson writes of the life of perished things: I have seen two of the apple trees in my grandmother’s orchard die where they stood. One spring there...