Tag Archive: spirit

Last weekend, I attended my first day-long meditation retreat. We’d done several sits, heard several talks, taken several breaks. But then came the retreat leader’s question, Who would you be if you stopped believing there was something wrong with you? The question smacked me in my head like a wet washcloth of realty. My eyes...  

Last week I had the privilege of seeing Dolly Parton live in concert. It’s funny, I didn’t even realize how many of her songs I loved until my mom told me she had tickets and then I started to count them in my head. There’s something so real about her, even if she’s full of...