Over five years ago now, I knelt on a cold concrete floor in India, crying again as my house church sang around me. I was known in these …
India
From Hard Emotions to Hard Work
This journal was one of my work journals from the time I spent in India. It holds notes for re-writing and teaching a curriculum that taught …
In between dreams
In Between Dreams: Learning to Live the Present Moment as a Dreamer -- A Guest Post at Windrose Magazine A few weeks ago, I scribbled a …
Community
Community is an important aspect in our lives. Here's a glimpse into what that looked like for me in India, straight from my …
today [one year later].
Today hasn’t been as bad as I expected. Thought I write that pretty tentatively; there’s a whole lot of day left. But I was expecting to …
Today, part 7.
Note: as I've been experiencing a lot of "one-year" anniversaries this month, I've been writing every morning about each day, re-reading …
Remaining Uprooted
I didn't expect it to hurt this much: the leaving. the last-time-to-see this or that person. the last drives on intolerably bumpy roads that …
Return
To the one who stayed, and now must return, dear friend, dear self, You didn't want to stay. Everything within you was ready to go. …