Monthly Archives: April 2019
One night a powerful storm rolled in over the Big Island of Hawaii, dropping snow on Mauna Kea summit, where winds were measured at an incredible 194 miles per hour. As the storm raged outside, shaking the house and rattling the windows, Stu and I settled in to watch a movie—a documentary on the men who had walked on the Moon. All the Moon-walkers who were interviewed for the documentary decades after their journeys into space, had experienced a major…..
This week has been particularly intense with the burning of the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the troubling political climate in the U.S. It’s also Easter week–for Christians around the world a time of dissolution and rebirth. It seems fitting to reflect on the gift of life and the importance of cherishing the present moment. All of us who were in Hawaii on January 13, 2018, will never forget that fateful day. That Saturday morning we woke up…..
Working at hospice (as well as in my own experiences of loss) I saw that many of us who have suffered a major loss often begin asking the deeper questions about life and death. As we search for answers to why it happened, grapple with our beliefs about life and death and try to find meaning in our losses, new dimensions of life are revealed to us. Our broken heart can become an open heart. We can become more conscious,…..
By now 2019 is in full swing. Did you start the year full of good intentions? Maybe it’s time to reconnect with them and re-energize them. Here is an intention from a few years ago that may resonate, given the tension and conflict swirling around in the world today: It was the beginning of January. Sitting down at my desk in my office at hospice, trying to ease back into work mode after the two-week Christmas break, I turned on…..
