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From birth to death, life is a messy proposition. Sanity, strength, hilarity, tears: I get through one thing after another thanks to my women friends who come bearing gifts and sorrows for one [...]

It’s odd and instructive how a word or a phrase can lodge, a seed in my being, send its roots down, and ultimately bloom. i. “with” “With” is one of those words, and it carries the [...]

From the sick-bed, the herbalist says: I know exactly when the scale tipped for my immune system and lost its preventive edge against this virus. I had already been taking liberal doses of [...]

I distinctly remember the moment I recognized is-ness, the common state of all living things except us humans, for whom it remains an illusive state.  I was taking a hatha yoga class, looking out [...]