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  • When the Ashes Come Home

    🌒🕯️ There are moments that don’t arrive with fireworks or fanfare.They arrive quietly.Almost casually.And yet everything inside you knows: this is exact. Yesterday, I was told I can prepare to receive my mother Gloria’s ashes. Almost a year later. 49… Continue reading

    When the Ashes Come Home

  • 🌑 When Healing Changes the Field âś¨

    For a long time, I believed certain patterns in my life were simply fate. The same relational dynamics.The same sense of obligation.The same quiet pressure to manage, appease, and anticipate others — even when it cost me my own center.… Continue reading

  • ✨ The Hopes and Fears of All the Years âś¨

    (Listening more closely this Christmas) I was listening to old Christmas songs today—the oldies, the ones that have lived in the background of a thousand Decembers—and something stopped me cold. A single line. From O Little Town of Bethlehem: “The… Continue reading

    ✨ The Hopes and Fears of All the Years âś¨

  • 🌑 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 19

    Grief at the Table: A Week of Thanks-Giving There are some seasons of life where “gratitude” doesn’t float easily off the tongue like the scents of cinnamon and clove. Sometimes the word catches in the throat, heavy with memory, thick… Continue reading

    🌑 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 19