(image seen above) This is my version of the sunflower during our Art Way Painting Sunflowers class. I was so befuddled by my attempt to paint a sunflower that I found myself writing out “The Sunflower” by Mary Oliver and making petals out of her beautiful words. My...

April is here. Lent. Easter. Bunnies. Pastel m&m’s. Crosses. Churches advertising upcoming services. I used to be at all of them. I lived for Lent. Loved Maundy Thursday and praying all night in the Garden, Good Friday fasting, Holy Saturday, four little Easter...

The documentary "Come See Me in the Good Light" just won the Sundance Festival Favorite Award. It tracks the intimate moments of poet Andrea Gibson as they battle cancer with chemotherapy and intimately shares the life and love they have with their partner, poet,...

Years ago I heard about a heart transplant that blew me away. I have never gotten over it. The mysterious power that lies within the heart is so poignantly manifested in this story. An eight year old girl received a heart from a murdered ten year old. The girl began...

We are the world. Actually.In the “We are the World” documentary, you get a front row seat into the personas of some of the world’s biggest eighties’ musicians. That iconic song takes me right back to 1985 with its famous lyrics, those unique voices and that special...

Ruaha space to breatheRuah is a Hebrew word that conveys breath, wind, spirit and divinity. Ruah is the force that brought creation into existence, breath into our lungs and moves leaves and trees, mountains and souls. Ruah is a spirituality center in a Houston...