A Few Bears and a Few Thousand Stitches
I lived in rural Floyd County, Virginia, for nine years. Living rurally means frequent deer encounters, groundhogs living under outbuildings, and not-infrequent gifts of mice and moles left by the … Read More
A Little New Year Foolishness
December 31, 2018
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Sarah B
I’m a long-time year-end planner and I’ve gone about it a pile of ways. I’ll save you the gory details except to say that I’ve found that having a lot … Read More
Wishing you What Ifs this Holiday Season
December 24, 2018
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Sarah B
For a year or so, I worked with a woman who is a medium and energy worker in Floyd, Virginia – Catherine Morningstar. I would drive to her house and … Read More
The Smothering Blanket of Overgeneralization
December 17, 2018
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Sarah B
In their book Conscious Loving, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks wrote, “When deeply hurt, your body and mind will overgeneralize, in order to prevent you from hurting that way again.” Most … Read More
Third Intention Healing of Our Hearts
December 9, 2018
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Sarah B
I found my soul mate of a dog, Emmie, in 2000 at the pound. Four years later, she picked out her partner in life and crime, Cosmo, at an adoption … Read More
Coffee and the Art of Slowing Down
December 3, 2018
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Sarah B
As I write this, I’m drinking English Breakfast tea out of a handmade mug. It’s my favorite tea mug, tall and lean with a tiny bit of a bulge just … Read More
A Conspiracy of Excellence
November 26, 2018
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Sarah B
Last week was one of those weeks that seemed to have a theme, one wove through a couple of conversations and one Instagram video, like so: Natalia Alvarez, an expert … Read More
One Strategy to Rule Them All
November 19, 2018
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Sarah B
Last week, I shared an abbreviated version of the keynote on navigating change that I gave at the Council of Community Services annual lunch. Friends, that was one engaged and … Read More
Dropping Shoulds and Leaning into Coulds: Navigating Change
November 12, 2018
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Sarah B
The title of this post is the title of the keynote address I’m giving this very day during the annual meeting of The Council of Community Services. I thought it … Read More
You are the Batman you’ve been waiting for
November 5, 2018
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Sarah B
“There’s no Batman coming to clean things up.” For the last couple of weeks, I had been thinking about why people so often don’t use their right to vote and … Read More