inspired to be ourselves
(Sorry I managed to screw up posting two weeks in a row. But my computer BROKE yesterday. New computer today! Yay.) My mom is over 80. She recently got a letter in the mail from someone she had gone to grammar school with. The letter was from a woman, Jill, who had been in the […]
A few weeks ago I promised to write a post every Thursday. I made it two weeks before I screwed up. I think that is mighty Flawed of me, but I won’t beat myself up about it too badly. Back before the Internet, before blogging, before PostSecret, there was The Sun Magazine’s “Readers Write” […]
Every week on Friday, NPR has Storycorps on, and every week it makes me cry. Storycorps is a project where a traveling recording booth goes around the country and people get a chance to interview their loved ones. The best stories are picked to be on the radio, and they are such touching and lovely […]
I paraphrased this poem by Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi in my “about” section. I love the whole thing so much that I thought I would share it. Come, come, whoever you are Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a […]
I love forgiveness stories. I collect them. A Course in Miracles says “The holiest spot on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.” I like The Forgiveness Project website, because it has great stories and because it doesn’t bother to clean them up and make them all right. Sometimes people screw […]
