How boundaries create spaciousness and generosity

How boundaries create spaciousness and generosity

When Miles and I moved into our home in 2000, we had a bare front yard. He created a lovely landscape design (birches, a dry creek bed, lovely ground covers), but we still needed a boundary between us and the street. At first Miles proposed a solid fence. I...
Sally and the invisible visible mess

Sally and the invisible visible mess

On Saturday I swept the deck. Yesterday I swept the carport. Today I swept the front porch. That may not impress you, but it made an impression on me, and it got me to thinking about invisible visible messes. One kind of invisible visible mess is the mess that accrues...
When unfair things happen in life and business: How to get free of the undertow

When unfair things happen in life and business: How to get free of the undertow

I’ve been noticing lately a tendency to attach to the drama of Miles’s accident. It’s as though I’m not satisfied that the Universe has sufficiently acknowledged the unfairness of it all. It’s like part of me is holding out for a bigger...