Applying Healing Balm Standing at my father’s bedside I often imagine the *prayers being sent. I imagine them floating above him waiting to be placed on the area where he needs the most…

My friend Shelley who has ALS knows what it means to fight for her life. She is of sound mind, and though her body is beautiful and young, she cannot move any part of it. Her husband Eric, her rock…

As I witness life with my hands tied behind my back and my heart pounding loudly and echoing off the canyon’s wall… I am not afraid but wearing thin. As I listen to the unanswerable question – why, especially as…

  In the painting above the young woman holds a mirror behind herself as she gazes into the future, in doing so she places her hand to her heart. She is sitting- could that mean she is not in a…

Rain, sun, earth, seed, root, stem, flower, fallen petal…          We are one and the same at different moments throughout the day.

Unlike the other days were I held back my tears, I cried. I couldn’t hold back, fatigue reigned. In Portuguese he begged me over and over again, "Non chora." Then he called me by my childhood nickname, softly. Which released…