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Rose Gardens in The Stars (let your dreams be limitless)

Whatever it is that you’re dreaming about- - dream bigger.

Don’t waste time thinking about how it’s going to happen or if it’s possible or how you will get there- - just start by dreaming. \

Start by allowing yourself to imagine something beyond what you have previously imagined. Start with the seed of a rose and imagine planting an entire garden…

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New Release! Revelations of The Sky

Yesterday my newest book, Revelations of The Sky: 133 passages on the alchemy of grief, was released.

It’s been an odyssey to write this book and conclude a trilogy I began writing back in 2016, which folds in so many pivotal moments of my life including losing my brother Brent, transplanting at midlife to the island of Kauai in search of reinvention, and following the giant dreams inside my heart to see who I'd become if I trusted and believed…

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Book Excerpt: To See by Candlelight

This passage is a sneak peek from my upcoming book Revelations of The Sky.

‘To See By Candlelight’

I’m trying to learn what I can in this difficult season.

The other day, I was talking to a soul sister after our workout class. She is a kindred connection who sees life through a lens of hope, and we were having an honest conversation about how our summers were going. I shared the financial pressures and unexpected breakdown that has been occurring…

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We Are Our Own Experts: 3 Ways to Embrace Our Experience of Self

Carrying an invisible wound inside of yourself isn’t easy. When I lost my brother in 2016, I walked around for a long time afterwards feeling like half of my lungs had been ripped out.

I looked whole on the outside. Perhaps if you looked in my face you might see the stress lines and grief in my eyes, but otherwise my appearance showed nothing to indicate the deep suffering I felt inside.

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Sky Waltz

It’s hard to believe we’re here.

I woke up today with a purring kitty; we laid side by side on my pillow, chins resting on hands and paws; watched the jungle light go from deep night green to dawn light moss to verdant day break. A few roosters wandered by, a feral cat, too many birds to count; Shire’s eyes widened into saucer’s as she watched and wondered at this new space.

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Breaking The Mold Of Me

I have a new book coming out in June.

I pushed to get it published for this particular time line, because we are leaving Alaska in 6 weeks, and since all of these poems were written during my time here, it seemed poetic for publication to occur while still here and not in Kauai, where hopefully I will have new stories to tell.

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