I was often being a stern taskmaster over my mind. I yearned for more openness and joy.

I am no longer a victim of change: I am shaping the world that is to come.

We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous.

Sometimes, I know I'm hanging onto a part of my life that I'll eventually need to let go of...but not just yet.

Before I birthed my baby, he was a possibility, a kick against my insides. With that first cry, first breath, he became a person in the world.

Thresholds. We cross them every day. From room to room, from outside to inside, and back again, from here to there, from anywhere to everywhere, from age to age. Each threshold offers an opportunity for change, for renewal, for transformation, from what we were and what we are to what we can be....

One of my most treasured New Year’s traditions is coming up with a word for the year: a single word that I want to be the theme for my entire year. When I’m questioning what’s the right thing to do, I will look to my word of the year for guidance.

There are so many spiritual lessons from the natural world and—in a season filled with Ingatherings and Water Communions—this is one for me: oxbow lakes as a beautiful combination of resiliency, strength, and flexibility.

"We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change."...

We call forth the life of our faith by igniting our chalice. This spark of new beginnings invites us into a sacred space to reflect where we have been and where we are going. Even knowing that this particular flame will intentionally end with our ritual extinguishing, we fear not its end… For we...