Category Archives: .when things fall apart

Forced Into Freedom…Possibly the Only Path

"I used to have intense guilt for craving creative freedom - and then life forced me to go solo and I learned in one fell swoop that my guilty craving was a very divine calling - with all the rewards I was hankering for." - Danielle LaPorte - www.whitehottruth.com That could've been a page from ...

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Jackie Chan’s Failure-Recovery Formula

Kurt and I went to our first film of the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival last night.  A new Hong Kong Jackie Chan movie called Little Big Soldier. Throughout the movie, Jackie’s character greets “good news” and “bad news” alike with the thought, “how marvelous.”  Once, after he’s lost the enemy general he’d been ...

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The Wrenching Loss That Woke Me Up

The process of recovering from my miscarriage has necessitated looking at a lot of the places in my life where I wasn’t telling the truth, where I wasn’t being courageous, where I was trying ...

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