Befriending Discontent

What does discontent mean to you? Is it an impulse to be ignored, or perhaps a friend to be welcomed and led into your living room? I’d love to sit with you for a bit to share with you my newly expanding awareness of and friendship with discontent. But first, a quick...

Thriving Patterns

Have you ever heard of or read the book, Patterns of High Performance: Discovering the Ways People Work Best, by Jerry Fletcher? I first ran across it 8 years ago in a coaching course at Western Seminary in San Jose, CA. This book explores the premise that we each...

When the Blossoms Bruise and the Flowers Fall

Last winter, I joined an amazing group of women who gather to share a meal along with stories and thoughts we’ve written in response to a selected prompt. The prompts change each month, and often we’ve used those provided by Red Tent Living. But this month, our host...

Together We are Creators of Beauty

Be a creator of beauty. This was a surprising statement that surfaced as I interacted with a coaching tool with its lines and columns and places to mark an X. Designed to highlight our current desired focuses and life intentions, it helped me to see the possibilities,...

Vista Questions for a Spacious Year

We can hardly help it. The calendar turns not only to a new month but to a new year. We move from a month of busy Christmas celebrations into a vista of 365 open days. Perhaps we see a new slate or canvas, and we are nudged to dream a bit, to hope. Planner-lover or...