Mind, let my last thoughts today be about beauty...
The value of a thing
Somedays- don't feel good. Sometimes, in those moments, you can Offer yourself grace. Offer that which is upsetting you, a pass to leave without consequence. Offer who is upsetting you, compassion. Sometimes, peace for yourself, peace for another, peace for your space is more valuable than being right.
A Full Room
"This is a home you can always return to no matter how long you've been gone or where life has taken you. Lives are forever changed by being a part of this magic."
Dear Neighbor,
You can sit with us. You can live beside us. You can play your music. You can listen to mine...
An Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you and the hills build strength within your legs. May the sun warm your journeys and the rains bring life into your gardens. May you walk in the company of family and friends, your threshold remain familiar to them, and your heart remain open to welcome them.
Aim Straight
I pushed my own nervous inclination aside and instead of saying "Be careful!" I said "Aim Straight!" Then I let them go down the jump again and again because in this world, we need to be relentless and brave and I need to be sure they don't unlearn it.
She, like my own.
I wonder if she also worries. I have heard fear in her voice before. “Mama, please don’t scream because I don’t want you to get shooted.”
Wishing you peace.
"The pain of those lost in such circumstances lives in those who they have left. Those who couldn’t save them. The burdens they carried bleed into the burden of knowing you were not enough."
I Choose to Resist
I won’t apologize for my posts and I won’t silence my thoughts. I can’t do that and I don’t want to do that.
Snow in the City
As my 77-year-old mother shoveled out her neighbor’s parking space this afternoon, I thought about her years of shoveling snow in Boston. Years of putting on gloves, a hat and scarf, and heading out to shovel that same Brighton sidewalk. The years when she had her seven children to get it done for her and…
A Boston Lass 