Present Over Perfect

the notes—that’s the groove. In this season, I’m finding so much beauty in the space between the notes. This is ...

never have imagined. Whatever thing you think you can’t do without: alcohol, shopping, that number on a ...

And together we rambled around an approximation of Mary Oliver’s gorgeous poem—the wild night, the voice ...

Part 3 Legacy You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck. —Rumi ...

Agency Essentially, what I’m talking about, what I’m circling ever nearer and nearer to is agency. Or maybe ...

But over time I realized they weren’t necessarily great things for me. They were maybe someone else’s g ...

good people, with good opinions. You were made by hand with great love by the God of the universe, ...

growing herbs and lettuces, driving down roots, literally and otherwise. We get to decide, which is both so f ...

so very thankful for the solid ground that seems to multiply a couple square inches under my feet wi ...

solitude. It’s almost like training wheels, or like a cast. I’m so unfamiliar with listening deeply ...

Legacy A friend asked me to help with a project. He had written a wonderful curriculum, helping pe ...

The crew held their breath. Fat, hot tears fell onto my notebook, smearing the black ink. My frien ...

questions printed on the cards sitting on the chair. Easy enough. And then I picked a card th ...

It’s All Right Here Oh, the fear I’ve known, that I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my ow ...

and his attentiveness. It sounded amazing. And then he told me the next part of the story, which is that ...

feels good to be good at something, to master something, to control something when marriage and inti ...

our marriage. This is why the ferry boat conversation got to me, because there was a moment ...

another. And many of us were utterly unprepared for the true intimacy required for deep, vuln ...

The Man in the Tuxedo For the Guinaugh family The phone call came on a Tuesday afternoon, bright sun slanting ...

noticing those subtle messages that our body speaks to us if we listen: these have not been ...