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What’s Wrong With You?
Short answer: nothing. There’s a quiet lie that does more damage than the loud ones because it doesn’t shout. It just sits down next to you at the end of a long day and says: everyone else has this figured out. What’s wrong with you? I saw it on display the other day in our…
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A waking dream
On cutting free what was never yours to carry I had a sort of waking dream today. It was a most amazing experience. I had been reading the news and, as is pretty common these days, felt a panic attack coming on. I used a technique I’ve learned to focus on the physical sensations in the…
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So be it resolved…
From the edge of 2017 Rarely has a year been as hated as 2016. The poor thing; so unfairly accused. After all, all 2016 did was provide 365 days. It was up to us to fill them. Each day, we had a choice: to be resolved, to live our convictions or to let it slide.…
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Live the experiment
Daily Reflection 2025-05-21 I want to coin a new term: larva brain. We talk about our reptile brains; this is like that but different. The larva brain is a sort of layer over top of the organic brain. These larva are parasitic, feeding off the electricity of a brain that’s freaking out. It’s the larva…
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The goal isn’t the goal
Daily Reflections 2025-05-19 It’s a rainy morning. We had a gorgeous day yesterday and I spent most of it in the garden preparing beds for planting so I’m a bit stiff and sore this morning, but in a good way. And I have a few thought rattling around. I read a great piece by Jennifer…
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Permission to be Seen
On barbs, bravery and belonging My dad turned 93 last week. He’s been sober for about sixty of those years, with a gap in the middle that started about the time I came along. The drinking hadn’t always been a problem. It came on in his thirties, the way these things sometimes do. Pressures started…
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The Council of Stones
A story about trusting the counsel of rocks and other things older and wiser than you. Some evenings, the world feels too loud for language. Emails multiply like rats, the news mutates into performance art, and even well-meaning people suddenly require more emotional bandwidth than the average small-town power grid can provide. On those nights,…
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Where are you investing your time?
Daily Reflections 2025-07-02 Jul 02, 2025 The other day, I told a friend that I’m no good at money. She’s concerned that this represents a self-limiting belief about money that’s holding me back. It bugged me for a few days until I finally realized that she heard that as some sort of self-confession, but I…
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A Breadcrumb for My Future Self
Listening for the tuning fork note Dec 03, 2025 Roland’s Facebook memory from 11 years ago popped up this morning: “Just back from Pender in what may have been a life-altering experience.” Boy, howdy, was it — and is it. It got me thinking about intuition. We got Zelda, our dog, because of intuition. I…
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The Wisdom That Is Already There
When we quiet all the chatter Dec 02, 2025 Some lessons don’t arrive as wisdom. They arrive as exhaustion. I’ve been witnessing this one for years — this repeating pattern every time we try to build a coherent “system.” Just when you think you’ve got it almost worked out, life comes along and flicks it…
Category: Field Notes
In-the-moment reflections and personal essays — daily observations, grief, gratitude, the view from inside a life being lived.