by Gayle | Dec 30, 2023 | Blog
It’s close to that time, stepping into a new year, preparing shining new calendars to organize life. My head says I should be writing something pithy and profound. My heart says please offer generous sentiments of peace, love, kindness waking up our world. My belly...
by Gayle | Nov 24, 2023 | Blog
It’s the seasonIt’s the season of holidays, days on our calendar marked for celebration tethered to history, tradition, family rituals that leak with questions and confusion of truth. Let me say it differently. I struggle saying happy Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving,...
by Gayle | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog
One day, my spouse was driving us down the highway. All the lanes were open, making an easy flow of speed and direction, and he started talking about his work. “It makes a difference when you are retiring to something, versus retiring from,” he said. I’ll get...
by Gayle | Sep 22, 2023 | Blog
Years ago, I named five ways of connecting with others as a way to make clear and conscious choices about how to be in relationship. In my spiral of learning, I returned to them recently in conversations with my beloved. I also added a 6th C – Coordinating...
by Gayle | Aug 25, 2023 | Blog
If something positive happened to me, an achievement of any sort, my father would often sarcastically say, “Well, pin a rose on you.” I never considered, until now, how degrading, harsh, and undermining that six-word sentence could be to a person, and especially to a...