Raising the Dialogue, Part 3: When Do I Get to Talk?
A wee sentence tucked into each of my last two posts, each alluding to the need to address problematic words and behaviors, deserves a little attention today. This is where … Read More
Raising the Dialogue, Part 2: Listening for the Big Lessons
May 18, 2020
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Sarah B
Last week, I wrote about listening past others’ challenging words as though it’s easy, a switch to flip. “Ah, yes, now I hear the humanness beneath the reactivity. Jolly good!” … Read More
Raising the Dialogue, Part 1: Listening Past Words
May 11, 2020
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Sarah B
For some time now, it’s felt to many of us as though public dialogue has devolved into different sides shielding themselves behind stone walls while lobbing opinions at one another. … Read More
Sharpening our Tools on the Whetstones of Little Stuff
May 4, 2020
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Sarah B
Picture it: Last Friday, May 1, my yoga mat laid out on the Matisse-reminiscent print of our bedroom rug. Unlike the previous however-many months, my mat had consistently made an … Read More
The Awful/Good, Awfully Good Practice
April 27, 2020
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Sarah B
People occasionally compliment me for being patient. It makes me giggle. When I tell Theresa or my mom about those compliments, they giggle, too. Patience is most certainly not one … Read More
Time Travel for the Sake of the Now
April 13, 2020
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Sarah B
While I’m an advocate for and practitioner in living as much in the present moment as possible (an ever-imperfect attempt, for me, at least), there are historically two ways I’ve … Read More
Generosity and the Gremlin of Not Enough
April 6, 2020
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Sarah B
One of the interesting things about particularly challenging times, be they as common as a suddenly-lost job or as extraordinary as a pandemic, is that they have a way of … Read More
Fear in its Right Place
March 30, 2020
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Sarah B
I am a culinary school dropout. The year after I finished my bachelors in psychology, I enrolled in the local community college for the culinary arts adventure I had been … Read More
Laughter in a Locked Ward
March 23, 2020
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Sarah B
There’s a moment from a handful of years ago that I think I will remember my whole lifetime. A deeply courageous, very pregnant woman I knew was experiencing a … Read More
Escaping Imminent, Gruesome Death in the Backwoods. Sorta.
March 9, 2020
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Sarah B
A couple of winters ago, Theresa and I spent a weekend in a primitive cabin in the middle of nowhere Virginia. It was a little log cabin in a gully … Read More