by Deb | Apr 6, 2018 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has announced that the theme for this year’s Sexual Awareness Month is “Embrace Your Voice.” For all women and girls to be able to embrace their voices, however, we have to break the taboo on talking about sexual...
by Deb | Jul 10, 2017 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Quilt of Humanity
What is the truth that you want to speak? I spoke mine in my just-published memoir, Mystery of Memory: Telling My Truth, Standing My Ground. The following quote describes what propelled me to move forward and complete this difficult journey: “Confront the...
by Deb | Oct 3, 2016 | Balance, Connections, Healing
It is true I was created in you. It is also true That you were created for me. I owned your voice It was shaped and tuned to soothe me. Your arms were molded Into a cradle to hold me, to rock me. The scent of your body was the air Perfumed for me to breathe. Mother,...
by Deb | Oct 14, 2014 | Balance, Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Learning, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.” – James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name Any kind of change can be hard but the hardest changes...
by Deb | Mar 4, 2013 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Within seven weeks almost to the day that my father passed away last November, my mother followed. In some ways it was a surprise, and in other ways, it made complete sense. They were both 91 years old and had been married 62 years. An image that remains ingrained in...
by Deb | Nov 27, 2012 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
I Would Not Be Remembered to the Sun “I would with memory in befriending lips, Fond lips that loved with love to speak my name. May they speak pledge to immortality, May they speak quietly my name to fame.” – Kenneth Benne My 91 year-old father...
