Equilibrium

You know you’ve taken a sweet leap in your emotional health when people are tumbling off pedestals around you. Why elevate them in the first place? And why put yourself a notch below anyone? Take a deep breath and get in there. We’re all one. Every day....

BlueGame

When I was invited to attend the Auburn Lives of Commitment Breakfast at Cipriani in New York last week, I marveled aloud at the centerpieces — glass bowls filled with blue marbles — and wondered about their significance. The program said there would be a...

Letting go

Thought-provoking piece called “Letting Go” by Harriet Brown in the May issue of O The Oprah Magazine. It’s about forgiveness and Brown chronicles her experience with Fred Luskin, who holds a PhD in counseling and health psychology from Stanford...

Letting light in

Cannot wait to see the Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a few weeks. Perhaps it will give another layer of meaning to this favorite photo of mine (below) taken by a friend in Ireland. One quote from...

Verse and more verse

Another poem. Another poet. This one from the April (poetry) issue of O The Oprah Magazine: Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in...