Dear Journeyer, “How do you know if you’ve officially let go?” asks one of our neighbors. What a beautiful question. There really is no one right or wrong answer. The simplest answer is that you just know. You feel a sense of peace or resolution from your belly to your bones. Sometimes the heavens open, the angels sing, the doves … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Freedom
As I prepared for my family’s July 4th celebration, I couldn’t help but think about some of the events and threads that comprise our freedom. Our freedom, for all of us who live in countries that afford us the privilege of choosing our own daily course of actions, was born on the backs and of the bloodshed of too many to … Read More
Is America to Blame?
“America is to blame,” my local radio station quoted the mother of the Boston bombings suspects. Soon after the standoff with the two brothers ended, this recorded news report played over and over. At first, I was incensed. How dare she say that America is to blame for this atrocity? To blame us for her sons’ brutality. And … Read More