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"You will be free; you will go Home; you will rest in Love forever.” - Kathy Sharp, Notes From Akasha Gloria Steinem died this week at ninety-two, and I have been thinking about how much of my own life was shaped by women like her, women who refused to accept that being female made their lives smaller. My step-grandmother was one of those women. She drove an AMC AMX with a racing stripe as if D.C. traffic were merely a suggestion, usually with her foot a little too firmly on the gas. She wore...

“There is something in every man that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in himself.”— Howard Thurman “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”— Simone Weil “Be still, and know that I am God.”— Psalm 46:10 Several people sent me links about Dolly Parton this week. They knew I would be impacted by the news of her death, and they were right. Dolly has been part of the soundtrack of my life for as long as I can remember, although that soundtrack was never made up of...

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.” — Rumi “When we look into a mirror, we see a dirty face because our own face is dirty.” — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche “Meditate peacefully. Become the witness of your thoughts.” — Baba Muktananda When I was ten years old, there was a girl in my fifth-grade class who I really liked. She was very smart and especially good at math. One day after gym class we were standing with some friends on the outside...