Monthly Blog Series 2025
I really do not know. But it feels like good advice to lead with your heart. You can also lead with your feet and hands and trust they will lead you where your heart wants to go. The Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ”between heart and heart, there is a window.” That's the heart space where we can see each other and hear each other without armour and without weapons. And there is always something to be grateful for. Always. I learn that lesson more fully each time I meet another one of life’s curves like a whirling dervish.
Song lyrics
I’ve been going through an intense period of medical treatment and emergencies. In hindsight, it’s been quite a string of what one might call bad luck. But I've been able to hold gratitude, humility, and curiosity through most of it. It’s been a great opportunity to learn more about myself and this weird existence. Some unexpected triggers for these lessons have been song lyrics — popping into my head vividly, loudly, or persistently. Usually, these “ear-worms“ are just the mind on its hamster wheel of constant thinking. Now and then, though, it feels to me like something is surfacing, as though the subconscious is relaying a message. From the depths, wisdom uses whatever tools are at hand to get through to us.