Thoughts

Personal reflections, shared with care.

Thoughts on finding our words, navigating change and making space for connection. All beliefs are welcome, and there’s no single way to belong.

  • Learning thru my grief

    Grief can reshape our sense of who we are, what we believe and where we belong. It can change friendships, family relationships and connections with those closest to us—sometimes bringing us closer, and sometimes creating a distance we did not expect. Sometimes people try to understand our loss by comparing it with a different experience.…

  • Listening to our bodies

    When a body, a person,or a system (group, etc.) experiences an imbalance, that same body, person,or system will mobilize certain forces to resolve the problem. Take the simple case of a cut in the skin: the blood circulation and the whole organism mobilize to heal the injured area. Today, this “natural”principle is often interrupted, or…

  • My greif

    Before I Had the Words I lost my husband, Larry, to cancer in 2020. But my grief began before I lost him—before we even had a diagnosis. Toward the end of 2018, it became apparent that something wasn’t right. He was being sent for a CT scan, and although we didn’t yet know what was…

  • What gives me light

    The things I treasure most are photographs of my loved ones—those still here and those who have passed. They hold moments I can’t get back, faces I love and memories I never want to lose. As a photographer, I know how much one picture can mean. Sometimes a photograph becomes one of our most precious…

  • Hello World!

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