Tonight: I’m home — safe and warm, after all my travels. Rain patters softly on the roof. I think back to the time I spent with family over the past few days, and to the way I gave my body permission to enjoy this holiday fully and completely: I stood over a wide Wolf range, stirring […]
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The Body Electric: Day Twenty-Two {A Christmas Eclipse}
Confession? When I first began my little thirty-day series, my hope was to post every day for 30 days about the joy of living fully in the body. Turns out, though, that I’ll be spending the next four or five days celebrating in T’s family home on Potomac Creek, where the internet connection is spotty […]
The Body Electric: Day Twenty-One
Can I say something honest to you? I grew up in a world that talked a lot about God — a lot — and I’m not always comfortable with the things that world taught me about him. Tonight, though, as I walk the streets on this darkest night of the year, I stop in front of a […]
The Body Electric: Day Nineteen
Maybe it’s just me, but lately I’ve been feeling like December is just … hard. I don’t have any real emotional reason to feel that way: no family drama. No old holiday loss. If any thing, I’m happy… But I’m also exhausted. And I’m not just talking about my usual bouts with insomnia. I’m talking […]
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