Comfort & Joy

I think my life has been waiting for me to make peace with it for a long time now. I think a part of me was waiting for things to change, and then I would make peace with it. But my hair is now officially more gray than black, so…

It’s summer and I’m letting myself take in the change of season. I’m a school librarian, so I am on break now. My usual tendency is to ‘account’ for my time and end a day with a sense of productivity. But something in me is pulling me in another direction.…

t is the acceptance of myself, as I truly am, that will be the doorway to transformation. –– Thomas Merton, American, Trappist Monk, 20th century <p>It’s Mother’s Day, and for many women this day presents an array of stories and mixed emotions. I had wanted to be mother, but my…

Yesterday, when I arrived at work, pulling off my bike helmet and getting out my key to open the library, I looked up and there was a face from the past. It was a woman that I have known in the school district for about fifteen years now. We are…

As I was rushing to clean up in the library and put the remaining books away in order to leave for an afternoon appointment, one of the parents came in to chat. It was a mother I met a few years ago, when she volunteered in the library. At that…

I have been facing so many limitations lately with this tendonitis in my toes.  For a while, just walking up and down the stairs to the front door of my house was extremely painful. I was frustrated, but then I began to notice how the limitations were also creating new…