This past weekend marked the annual celebration of Father's Day. For some of us, this offers a welcome opportunity to experience joy amid the grief we've been processing. For others, the public acknowledgements this holiday brings only compounds that grief. It's all totally valid. So, no matter who you are...
...the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath The sun's out. The birds are singing. The smell of BBQ is wafting through the air. Everyone loves the summertime! Don't they? If you're someone who experiences seasonal depression during the summer time...
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. John Lubbock How's your summer so far? Maybe you're eagerly checking off your...
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Mahatma Gandhi In the midst of grief and healing, there's a celebration underway. This month marks the start of annual LGBTQ+ Pride traditions and, here in the Twin Cities, there are...
Some of the cuts are so small they’re barely visible. Others are huge and gaping, leaving scars that never heal. Either way, they accumulate. We carry them everywhere, to and from school and work, at home while raising our children, at our places of worship,...
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. F. Scott Fitzgerald The days are getting longer...