I am making a home inside myself. A shelterof kindness where everythingis forgiven, everything allowed—a quiet patchof sunlight to stretch out without hurry,where all that has been banishedand buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to—released. – Julia Fehrenbacher My theme for September has been Connection. It seemed such a natural follow…

During my meditation today, the instruction was to silently repeat: My body always knows, and I am ready to listen. I nearly missed the words as they were spoken. Yet, there was something within them that caused me to take notice. My body always knows. Is that so? And if…

Some months hand you a clean, single word. July wasn’t one of them.My theme for July was steady, but life had other ideas. Here’s what July asked of me. What July Asked of Me in Four Words Helplessness Steadiness, I learned, isn’t the absence of struggle. It’s what we return…