Enabling Is Not Love
I’ve struggled all my life with confusion about the difference between enabling and love. Most of us think of enabling in the context of addiction, and we’re familiar with the idea that helping an addict avoid the consequences of their addiction is not, in the long...
Whose Story?
I’ve spent most of my life being flung from one story to the next. Photo by Cristian Newman on Unsplash None of the stories were mine. More than anything else, this blog has been a step-by-step process of finding my own voice and path. It’s not a coincidence that...
Life’s Light
Mary Oliver writes about “the light that can shine out of a life.” I’ve been resting in that phrase over the holiday weekend. Photo by Helena Yankovska on Unsplash When I think of “life” the first things that come to mind are not human lives, but those rooted in the...