A Different Food Chain
Resilience on our farm is embedded in how we live — offering efficiency, safety, and heart. In this article, you’ll see how we conceive...
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Feb 19, 20191 min read
Montana Parent Lorca Profile
Thank you Julie Kleine and Montana Parent Magazine for celebrating local women leaders for International Women’s Day in their latest...
Jun 18, 20181 min read
A Hunger for Joy — Lorca’s TEDx
I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this. We find the opening when what needs to be...
Sep 22, 20171 min read
The Why of Glasses
The Why of Glasses I missed my glasses. Folly to mourn healing of the cranium, the return of equilibrium in the timing of an eye’s focus,...
Apr 13, 20173 min read
Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral?
“And you would be…?” Good morning, dearests. Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral? I think I just did. I had a rare...
Dec 21, 20162 min read
“You Can Do This Hard Thing”: The Odd Road to Tougher
A firefighter told me yesterday that when he started working with me on his resilience he was excited because he thought that he was...
Dec 2, 20161 min read
How to Eat Love
Love is going out to kill a turkey in 20-degree weather so that your wife can tend other things. And love is still liking the man who is...
Oct 19, 20166 min read
The Sermon of Lorca’s Animals
Last year’s sermon of animals was a flow coming from multiple places of animals in the life of family and field, forest and farm, and it...
Oct 19, 20162 min read
Profanity for Children
Profanity for Children I refrained from swearing near my young children, not precisely for their sakes, but as much in love for the...
Mar 12, 20162 min read
How we _really_ honor those we’ve lost
With our lives. Aimlessness and loss compound each other. Perhaps you’re lying in bed at night worrying about tomorrow or next...
Mar 6, 20162 min read
Ignite Your Creativity
Teaching is about information and understanding. Coaching, however, is for intuition and implementation. Here’s a 2-minute video if...
Dec 8, 20151 min read
Luminations — Being flame…
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, work, love,...
Dec 1, 20151 min read
Luminations — Loosening A Grip on Overwhelm
luminations noun, plural. 1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity. See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, love, home. 2....
Nov 14, 20151 min read
Fighting terrorism from where you are
Dear ones, this morning I, too, am torn, deeply sad and sorry and worried, reaching out to friends to know they’re safe, aware...
Sep 28, 20154 min read
Radical Awakeness: Living Among Animals
I was invited to share today in part because my life and my work has become embedded in so very many animals. Our river farm is and has...
Aug 12, 20154 min read
Taking PTSD under the pavilion
The gift of inland islands… Three months ago post-traumatic stress came to walk beside me again, after many years gone. Random panic...
May 18, 20151 min read
The Pain-Bearers
Sometimes I think I have come into this life as one of the pain-bearers — not one who takes all pain onto herself, nor one who takes it...
Jan 22, 20152 min read
Resilience Myth #3: The Awesome Work Ethic
In the last post, we looked at the resilience Myth #2: “I’ll evade burnout with careful time management.” So stop and think for a moment...
Jan 5, 20152 min read
Staying Resilient in 2015: The Biggest Myths — Myth #2
To give you one more idea around this one, Robert Grudin, who is one of my favorite thinkers, wrote in his book on time, “On this subject...
Dec 30, 20141 min read
Averting Burnout This Year: The 4 Biggest Myths — #1
For a time, I crashed down into a full-on burnout once every ten years: three times in three ways — once through tragedy, once as a...
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