Rachael Felicity Grace – Growing into love

Why we keep going

September 9, 2020 2 Comments

[Originally written to read at a Community Arts Night at the beginning of a new academic year at SSU where I work, but it's also about all of us and why we keep going, keep coming together, keep searching for…

Lockdown Lessons : Trusting the Process (with Meditation)

August 26, 2020 2 Comments

I am fascinated and intrigued by the way in which the Covid19 global pandemic is an extraordinarily collective and yet simultaneously highly individual experience. I resonate deeply with many personal observations from friends and strangers about their experience, but also…

Invitation

June 23, 2020 4 Comments

Everywhere the world is dancing. Two squirrels high in the treetops leap nimbly between branches, unafraid to fall. A ribbon of weather-bleached caution tape flutters gleefully in the breeze. At my feet, morning sun glints on the diamond shard of…

Infected

April 16, 2020 4 Comments

(written March 2020*) Symptoms are most severe in the old. First, on the tongue and lips the aching tang of salt water though it’s been years since you visited the ocean. Next, the heart begins to swell bigger and…

A Meditation (& Story) for Calm & Compassion

March 16, 2020April 17, 2020 No Comments

Dear friends, there's a lot going on right now. And it's changing all the time! Each of us will be responding to this situation with the COVID-19 virus differently, struggling with different parts of it and not struggling with others,…