Tag: Self-Care
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Full contact listening—writing about it keeps me resilient
When I was little, I was convinced the old white pine tree next to our home and the puffy clouds in the sky were telling each other the most amazing stories. I thought that if I could just figure out the right way to listen, I’d be able to hear them. Tell me. You’re so…
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{poem} in which a woodpecker saves me
Into the aftermath of blaring car accident near misses, thrum of impatience covered with sheepishly-offered smiles of good people pushed into temporary belligerence drops the tiniest sound full of curiosity and glee because late season goodness was found tucked into tiny gray-brown caverns in gnarled tree bark. she-tree slumbers on, roots holding fast aware she’s…
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Please. Don’t look away.
So many people responded when I published this in my newsletter this morning that it feels important to share it more widely. So, from my heart to yours… With devastation of all kinds in so many places around the world, you’re probably overflowing with advice about how to help or where to give. Me too. But…
Tracie Nichols 