To Let Come I am not a calendar with Straight lines etched across my self And tidy numbers telling me Which day and month I am And which page I should next be turning, Which intentions I must be setting and what should be released Instead I lay beside the winter coat Of the hibernating […]
What is it we fear so This dark time of year? We cover up the dark with glitter Lights and noise and stuff and lists Busy days, excess plastic and wrapping Good stuff too — food and song and sweet gifts
Once upon a time, when my daughter was a wee lassie, I spent a few evenings bent over the sewing machine, stitching together little bags from colourful scraps. Twenty-four bags to mark the journey of Advent for her, a cherished tradition from my childhood in Switzerland that I wanted to pass on. The bags were […]
In my home country – Switzerland – on All Soul’s Day – we wander to the cemeteries, and honor the dead. The cemeteries in the small mountain villages are alive with young and old, visiting their loved ones who have travelled on. This year my grandmother died. I spent a week with her, just before […]
I had a long chat with my mum this Sunday and am left with a buoyed sense of being held that lingers on into the afternoon, into the evening. As I stand at the kitchen counter, chopping veggies for supper I notice this “heldness” and my thoughts go to the many who don’t have a […]
TED-like talk at What Next Conference, Jan. 2013, on the Future of Parenting:
My 99-year old grandma continues to inspire me. Ten years ago, when she was still nimble on her feet and energized in her body, she decided to close up her city apartment, sort through all her belongings and move to a home for aged people a few city blocks away. She downsized everything to fit […]
As we near the end of our visit to my Swiss childhood home, I am filled with impressions, indents and enrichments to senses and self.
I gather some of them up here, in part to share with you as a thank you for all the times I get to travel vicariously through your reports, dear friends; in part so that they pop up again in the memory function some day in the future to re-member.
Last week in our parenting course, one set of questions we reflected on as we consider where we come from and what we pass on to our children was: “What do we include and bring along from our past? What do we choose to release and discard? And what do we transform? In short: keep, […]
Often our love for our children expresses itself in hugs, in yes’s and “for sure’s”. In “let’s do just what you wish and want”, in following our little (or big) one’s lead, beck and call. And sometimes love expresses itself in clear direction, in no’s, in putting your foot down and saying “not beyond here”. In […]
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