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The first in an occasional series that brings the skills and power of a life of practice to bear on healing and awakening deep cultural and tribal divides. As white women, we know plenty about [...]

It’s 2017 and I’m determined to see that the power to act weds nondual healing and awakening in new ways – for my individual clients,  for the civic body, for the common good. I was a [...]

“But what do you love to do?” JC has stopped me in my tracks with his question. We have been sharing our respective histories and current engagements with activism and social justice, and I am [...]

Beneath the anger, fear. Beneath the threats, broken hearts. Start there and we might get somewhere. Parker Palmer,  On Being, Nov 12* IN PRACTICE: Beneath my anger, fear Sometimes life comes at [...]

Dear Tribe – I am taking my own advice today: show up for the hard work. I can see I wrote today’s 6 AM post as a letter to myself before Election Day, knowing what I would need to tell [...]

As I write and post this week, election results are unknown. Regardless of outcome, many challenges and opportunities await us. We will feel them with differing senses of urgency. We wonder: are [...]

Reflections on the opening of  The National Museum of African American History and Culture Whenever I turn away from a feeling, an interpersonal challenge, a piece of bad news, I throw away a [...]

I regret and am embarrassed to report that the socio-drama in which I participated did not give me the healing I wanted. It only took me deeper into my grief, and left me untouched by the empathy [...]

The bumblebee I have been eyeing is having a hard time of it with the evening primroses, whose petals at high noon have mostly collapsed into soft mush. Every 3rd or 4th wilting bloom she lands [...]