I'm of an age where this is visceral. It's not just something to read on a card. I feel it in my knees and in my heart.

The most difficult teachers have been my best teachers. The ones I resist, they break me open so that I may learn. And because I am my most difficult and challenging teacher I need an amount (always more than I imagine) of solitude. To sit. With my w...

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Today I know this: I have been called, chosen, and have often turned away from the choosing and the calling. That cost me.

You help me to understand myself by seeing me, hearing me, feeling into the man I am. This is a subtle form of play. I am beginning to understand it as the highest form of "courtship."

I’m very sure that prizing balance is pretty much the best way to dampen the fire that lies at the heart of love, marriage

...let me take a moment to thank the men who, in the absence of fathers, uncles, elders who did not step up to the plate —thank you stepping up to the plate today. You inspire me.

To listen to this silence and allow it to show me and more tender, more vulnerable, more receptive, truer way of being…with tears as well as laughter as well as wonder…

It does not come easily to us, true noticing — that transmutation of looking into seeing. We must apprentice ourselves to it daily. It is our life’s work. (Maria Popova)

I should have known better. The signs were there, literally...