storytelling
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women of a certain rage
Women of a certain rage don’t know how things work. We don’t know why our mother didn’t have the language for what she carried. Why, as a kid, we wanted to know everything and then when we got older we… Continue reading
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the last drive in
Some of my best memories as a kid and a teenager live in the glow of summer nights at the drive‑in. In the late ’70s, my big sister would swing by home, or Happy Hills Campground, to pick me up… Continue reading
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cosmic parable
Once in a while a cosmic question is asked as souls gather before the beginning. The collective consciousness asks: Who will awaken us? Who will hold up the mirror to what we’ve been afraid to face, who will stir the sleeping… Continue reading
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everything beautiful
This morning, on the first day of Pride, I stood on the corner of a busy downtown street with a throng of staff, watching the flags be raised for Pride Month and Indigenous History Month. And I had a brief… Continue reading
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they were always golden
I got to hold babies and pet all the dogs. I got to fold warm laundry. Blow out birthday candles. Take naps. I got to walk down ordinary streets and notice beautiful things. Flower gardens. A child drawing galaxies in… Continue reading
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dear sugar
Some of you know Cheryl Strayed as the writer behind Wild, but before that she wrote an anonymous advice column called Dear Sugar — a place where people brought their hardest, most tangled truths, and Sugar met them with a… Continue reading
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the next big thing
Yesterday I had lunch with a woman who, last year, walked away from a 25‑year corporate career – just a few years shy of the golden pension so many of us hang on for. She realized she didn’t have any… Continue reading
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a mirror in the desert
By some strange twist of fate, my kids started their lives perched in Justin Bieber’s old high chair whenever they stayed at my parents’ house for the weekend. It was a classic ’70s vinyl number – sturdy, a little scuffed,… Continue reading
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all the days we did not live
I decided to walk to work this morning. Unusual for me in the winter. On my way, I happened to see an unhoused woman curled up on the cold sidewalk on the other side of the street, surrounded by the… Continue reading
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definition
Woke /wohk/(adjective.) The moment a person stands uprightin the full measure of their seeing.As in what Pope Leo said:To be called woke in a world that sleepsthrough sufferingis no insult. Or,the strange conditionin which noticing the worldis treated as more… Continue reading
