Today I took the dogs to the vet. Teddy was scheduled for an annual exam and Max was there for a 6-month check-up to confirm he is indeed negative for heart worm. A lot of street dogs from the South have to be re-tested so that any immature female worms who weren’t detectable on the… Read more »
The last weeks of July/first weeks in August are the luxurious height of summer in Coastal Maine, but they also contain the first subtle hints that the journey towards Fall has begun. The scent of everything in full bloom floats through the air, the heat is at its pinnacle, the thunderstorms are the most welcome… Read more »
Right now, we are barreling through a summer marked by great and calamitous shifts in how we understand ourselves as Americans. Most days it feels like we are living in the upside down, or a watery underworld where we can’t exist without assistance, watching the horrors of authoritarianism floating grotesquely by while the GOP cult… Read more »
This is an update from the original post Use The Force written in 2019. Why reprise this now, you ask? Because going through events, whether they are playing out on the world stage, or your personal stage, or both as they are often simultaneous, require a kind of patience that takes practice. We re-learn how… Read more »
We are all connected to one other through intuitive empathy. Last week we talked about how this type of empathy is different from emotional empathy, which is the willingness to imagine another person’s lived experience, whether we have similarities or not. Intuitive and emotional empathy can co-exist and often do, but intuitive empathy is immediate and… Read more »
It’s a relatively new phenomenon for people to casually refer to themselves as ’empaths.’ But I’m not sure everyone is on the same page as to what an empath is exactly. So I, like many people, share in a good dose of skepticism behind the rising wave of #empathslander. Let’s discuss what empathy is and isn’t…. Read more »
Junior Gorman the Younger and I are having a contest this summer: whoever clocks the week with the least amount of time on social media before Labor Day wins. We haven’t decided on a prize yet, but I suspect spending the summer with strong guardrails around the hellscape that the digital social world has become… Read more »
A piece I wrote for the socials, ahead of the 2020 presidential election, is suddenly gaining traction again. Proving that the algorithm is as mysterious as ever, because why now? (And confoundingly, as always, how)??? In any case, it confirmed for me that the energy in our country and the world is rising. And how… Read more »
Plague Year Musings: You’re Probably Really Afraid Right Now. This Could Be The Beginning of a Miracle. 1) Consider just for a moment, that there may be healing afoot. At first it may seem entirely inappropriate to consider anything but the magnitude of terror and shock lockdown has triggered. But it may be simultaneously true… Read more »
There are many intuitives who are sensitive to how illness and health interact on so many levels within ourselves, and I am one of them. However, and this is a big (BIG) disclaimer, if you’ve been following me for a while it won’t come as any surprise that I absolutely turn my back on simplistic… Read more »
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