I am but only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. Helen Keller I am because we are African Saying I am another you Mayan Saying I think about you often, and I wonder if you think of me too. I wonder if across the valleys of pain, the river of similarities can come and wash usunder the differences we feel dividing us. I cannot help but wonder how we got here, you there, me here, chasms of change and chaos eclipsing the real attraction, that of life itself.

So I know this is a 40 days of writing (self) challenge but today I’m expanding that to include whatever I want, haha, it’s my challenge and I will change if I want to kind of thing! Anyway, I decided to go live with my meditation practice tonight. But the…

in the chaos we yearn for it yet in the solitude we try to fill it as if we are afraid of silence ~SCK

It sounds corny now but when he said it to me, 18 years ago, the words were still fresh, and in fact so fresh to me that they made my (then) world stand still.

It’s hard enough to go to spin class when it’s a regular thing, add 5.5 months off sick and another couple traveling and getting back in the groove of feeling human again, and it’s another story.

Prefer to listen? You can do that here. — It’s OK, you make the rules, you can do whatever you want. Remember? I know, but I said I would do it today. You can always change the day, your life right? Yes, yes it is, but I do feel better when I stick to my guns. …

Here we are on Day 5 of 40 Days of Writing, and once again I am asking why I am doing this to myself? Again! So not the best time to commit to writing every day for 40 days. And yet so right on time. …

She sent me a text, it was Thursday evening and she was a hot mess. Evidently on the way out to the Farmers Market, her husband said they wouldn’t be having cupcakes, even though they usually had their weekly vegan cupcake treat, today they wouldn’t be. …

There are many ways to do God’s work and give back to charity, she tells me, I do God’s work in people’s mouths. This is my life’s work. She is an Angel in human form and I was in her chair. Her dark brown eyes peering through the clear face…