In a healed world, dignity wouldn’t need a reminder or a calendar. Recognition wouldn’t require advocacy. Compassion wouldn’t need to be scheduled. But we do not live in that world yet…and pretending otherwise doesn’t make it so.
Category Archives: Harvesting Insights
The Strength of Gentleness: Redefining Courage
To witness a person like this is to feel a quiet awe. I’ve seen it…rarely, but unforgettably. It’s so inspiring…their spirit. Their energy. I don’t stand in awe of their perfection, but of their becoming. Inspired by the courage it took to remain soft while being trampled by life…and tempered by fire.
Unconditionally
I know it’s hard to watch them hurt and watch them struggle and you will feel like you are abandoning them, but you are not abandoning them… You are empowering them.
We, the People…
We’re Not Tough on Crime. We’re tough on criminals.That difference isn’t semantic.It’s everything. Our fight shouldn’t be against people. It should be against crime. Confusing the two has cost us decades of failure, trillions of squandered tax dollars, and millions of shattered lives—on both sides of prison walls. We demand tougher penalties, but punishment hasContinue reading “We, the People…”
It Isn’t About Them. It’s About Us!
Who deserves to be here anyway? Maybe all of us. Maybe none of us.
Rethinking New Year Resolutions: Embrace Winter Rest
The post reflects on the unrealistic pressure to start anew in January, arguing that winter should be a time for rest and healing rather than a starting line. It suggests that true beginnings align with the spring equinox in March, urging individuals to honor their need for pause and reflection before taking action.
Training Our Fears to Hunt Us
There’s an old survival instinct in all of us…ancient and automatic…that screams, “RUN” whenever we’re afraid. Run from fear. Run from responsibility. Run from the conversation, the truth, the work, the grief, the courage it takes to stand still and face whatever comes next. But nature…real life…tells a different story. In the wild, there areContinue reading “Training Our Fears to Hunt Us”
The Quiet Fire Within:
Why We Are Uneasy We; those of us living in “developed” nations, often find ourselves living with a subtle ache…a dis-ease living inside. It’s quiet, almost imperceivable, which makes it much more insidious. It shapes our lives in ways we either can’t or won’t see. It whispers in moments of frustration, gnaws in times ofContinue reading “The Quiet Fire Within:”
Water the Seeds, Not the Struggle
We’ve spent centuries trying to control each other. Maybe it’s time to understand each other instead.
A Gentle Call to Hold Space
We cannot, and we should not, keep whitewashing our history with a single story of “the peaceful dinner,” as if one shared meal could eclipse centuries of genocide, broken treaties, displacement, indoctrination, and grief.
We don’t need guilt or shame to tell the truth, yet only the truth will set us free: free to love, to heal, to grow. We need the courage to hold precious both the beauty of gathering with the people we love…and the pain carried by those who survived what we tend to pretend never happened.
Harvesting Insights 