Thanks Dan... must have been so difficult to write this piece. Gives new meaning to SELF LOATHING and Following Faithfully false prophets. Love always wins... can we try it?

OF all the ways I anticipated spending and celebrating MOTHERS I could not have imagined or made my MOTHERS Day up Knowing full well there would be no ceremony with my bio TWO Loving and grateful Our schedules would not collide So many warm greetings Geographic land acknowledgments from those…

good read and hopeful for all the helpers in the world who are offering opportunities for difficult conversation...

very grateful for the presence and tone of this conversation. Blessings...

guardian observer...what a great read.. antidote for despair is love...simple enough, but I so appreciate your poetic capture of the moment of unrelenting fatigue and just sitting with it for a bit..

Nice, nice read and gentle reminder when you must forgive yourself for missing the mark and losing it. Take a nap and start again.. one of my fave books on the topic from a cultural perspective you may want to check out is Never in Anger : Portrait of An Eskimo Family by Jean L. Briggs. Most folks have never even seen what you're talking about even if they do try it as a practice.

reading the Bible for yourself again. Literacy is so over-rated.

keep in mind.. he was not shot, or bombed.. we are all affected...we are all connected... Get it?

I planted the roses finally on Saturday, they are doing well! Quite the HOLY WEEK