Each month, I am going to be sharing different music created by women. The music industry is still mostly dominated by men- women are still grossly under represented. This is why it is so important for us to shine the spotlight on women’s music. Music, more than any other art form, can fan the flames of the soul. I hope these monthly song selections will help keep the fires in your hearts burning strong.
Our Children Are the Best Parenting Experts
Feeling like we know how to be “a good mom” is so challenging these days. There are literally THOUSANDS of experts cranking out countless books, blogs, and podcasts about parenting all the time. As mothers we feel like we are constantly second guessing ourselves. Or at least, I know I am. But recently, I came across this deeply comforting insight from Jean Liedloff, the author of The Continuum Concept. It may be the last piece of parenting advice you will ever need.
Little Gurus: How My Children Became My Guides to Enlightenment
The word Guru in Sanskrit literally means“dispeller of darkness” which is exactly what you are. Every day I see so many heavy faces lightenand hands gently reach for their own hearts,People enthralled for a moment in your effortless magic washing over themas they watch you prance through the grocery store, or the park, or the […]
Dear Everyone: A Communal Love Poem
deep down
in between the expansive spaces
Within our molecules
We are eternal.
So don’t you let anything among this
Spectacle of specs of dust
make you feel like you are not enough.
Coming Home
I was ten years old.It was summer,the first weekend visiting my Dad after my parent’s divorce.After a strange day in what used to be our family home,he got a ladder out of the garageas night settled into South Dakota’s expansive skies.My father smiled like Galileo as he propped the ladder against the suddenly enormous, brown […]