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Out
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. …Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our...
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Wild and Precious
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,...
View ArticleEnough (A Year in Review)
It is hard for me to believe, but I have finished (survived!) my first year of practice as a nurse-midwife. In school, everyone told me that the first year is intense, and I expected that, but I had no...
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I am leaving for Haiti in a week. Holy moly, it’s happening. I’m going, along with my love, to a new place. We will be serving the cause of promoting maternal and child health in whatever ways they...
View ArticleThat Long Journey
“And you? When will you begin That long journey Into yourself?” –Rumi I am aware of the silence that has permeated my blog lately. I have been very mindfully (sometimes) sitting with the intensity of...
View ArticleThe Soft Animal of Your Body
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about...
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All the Robins
I woke up in the middle of the Hoh Rainforest at 5:00 this morning, realizing I had completed what I set out five days ago to do. With that sure knowledge settled deeply into my bones, I packed up my...
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The Antidote to Despair
I don’t know about you, but the last week and a half (the entirety of this current presidency thus far), and even the past couple of months since the election, have brought me closer and closer to...
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Born of Dust and Silence
Several months of silence have elapsed since I last showed up to pour my thoughts into this space. Much has been unfolding that is more personal than I am able to explore in this format at this time,...
View ArticleA Blessing for the Coming Fruit
I’m going back through old blog posts, and as I reread one from the day before I started midwifery school, I was struck by a dream that I had: “I had another dream, as I was waking from a brief but...
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