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Diving into the Grief
For my father on Fathers’ Day Jun 17, 2026 My dad died ten days ago and today marks exactly one month to the day he turned 85. When I begin to play with numbers, symbols, synchronicities and look at the totality of us, the father, the child, the teacher, the student, the cyclical nature of…
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Road to the TCS NYC Marathon: Part 2: Injury Time
There are 154 days until the TCS NYC Marathon and I am coming up on 6 weeks post knee surgery. On April 28 I had arthroscopic surgery for a meniscus tear, effectively ending my 12 year run streak and plunging me into new territory, weeks without my identity as a runner as well as access…
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New Moon, New Musing
I have been pulling a series of cards each night, simply asking for advice for the remainder of my day and each evening I write about what I think my intuition is trying to relay. Last night I tried a new tactic. The moon was new; it was a supermoon, when the moon is closest…
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Trusting my Body
Post-surgical blues in C Minor “My body is a tender thing and she forgave me for not trusting her.” Nell Diamond from The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspiring Life by Suleika Jaouad I am recovering from arthroscopic surgery to fix a medial meniscus tear. The pain had exceeded my capacity, finally,…
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Poem of the Day Project: Day 180
I began the “Poem of the Day Project” on September 26, 2025, and today’s poem marks day 180 of this daily ritual of crafting a poem during my morning journaling routine. Some of the poems make absolutely no sense to me, others have merit, yet it is the ritual of the constant attention to metaphor,…
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Nostalgia in a Box
I am a proud, card-carrying member of Generation X (1965 – 1980), that independent, pragmatic, adaptable, honest, skeptical and loyal generation with the best music (and you know it). For those of us born female, those of us now possibly experiencing a variety of software updates, including spontaneous human combustion (and approximately 65 other symptoms…who’s…
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Road to the TCS NYC Marathon: Part +1
On meditation and service The following is part of a series, which will be continued! Marathon training and preparation does not merely center around preparing the body. Sure, one needs a really good pair (or twelve) of shoes, a training plan, dialed in nutrition, weight training and ample rest and recovery as that body begins…
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Road to the TCS NYC Marathon
Part 0 There are 235 days until the 2026 TCS NYC Marathon. Now, I do not start actively training for this particular race until the first weeks in July, when I begin to incorporate marathon specific runs, mostly the long run, into my weekly plan. Until then, I focus on other distances, sprinkling some 5ks…