“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~C. S. Lewis I started life in a poor household with one parent who left when I was very little, never to be seen or heard from again, and another who stuck around but...

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi I watched my son get hit by his father, and something inside me finally broke open. Not broke apart. Broke open. There’s a difference. For years, I had absorbed the chaos. I had made myself smaller, quieter,...

‘Everyone has a natural koan. What's worrying you now? A seemingly intractable problem. Illness, old age, death?’ Everyday Buddhism

What does it look like to slowly rebuild your life, one small perspective shift at a time? If you ask Brianna Bascom today, her life feels like a beautiful dream realized. She is a successful business partner, a passionate artist, and a mother who starts every single...

My most intimate knowledge of war comes through my father. During the final days of his life, he began reliving his wartime experiences, memories he had never shared with his family. For decades he had carried them silently, the wounds buried deep within him. In his...