Monthly Archives: December 2025
Compassioning Estrangement
Estrangement occurs within families when members need to push away from each other to give themselves space to grow and become. While family members have much in common, we all have unique differences. When parents value some differences more than … Continue reading
Joy for Wanting What We Have
Life has much in common. All life works to obtain the basic needs to survive – food, water, wellbeing, children, safety, and rest. Most cultures have a deep gratitude and joy for having what we need to live another day, … Continue reading
Language of Balance
Life warns of an imbalance. Our sensations of thirst and hunger warn us that we need water and food. We refrain from drinking water or food that tastes, smells, or looks bad. Rising inequality, divisiveness, and turmoil signal a destabilizing … Continue reading
Redemption and Unity
The Western culture has a long history of willingly harming others for self-benefit and ignoring the suffering it has caused. Western history opens with the theft of land from the Indigenous people by European colonialists and their subsequent efforts to … Continue reading