An Invasion of Hope

An Invasion of Hope The first time I went out to try to remove the invasive honeysuckle in Moorhaven woods, I entered the forest with a warrior’s heart. I barely took a breath and certainly allowed no rest. For a whole day, I yanked and chopped and poisoned, hoping I could clear some space and…

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Door to the Sun

“Every action’s an act of creation.” Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda I thought doorways always led forward, but in the case of Porta del Sole, the door to the sun, it leads back. Back to a little town in Reggio Calabria, Italy where my Nona Vincenza Calautti is born. Where just three and a half years later,…

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One Present, One Path, One You

“He always wanted to clip the line and start over, but it soothed me to work on the line. To know that I could get out every knot and tangle in time. To know that the line might not be perfect afterwards, but it could be restored.” My daughter brought me a kite out of…

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Solving for the Unknown

“Not just a fighter. Not Just a Dreamer. Amazing Creator. Relentless believer in who I am and what I’ve got inside”.” —Tina Parol and Jason Mater, Live Your Story The other night, my daughter was practicing math on this online homework program. She kept choosing the addition and ignoring the subtraction. When her long-time babysitter…

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Uniting with YourSelf

“Only in unison are you capable of silencing the voice in your head (fear) that appears to be in disagreement with the Life that you are. And the only thing capable of this tuning process is YOU, which is to say LOVE.” As I was putting together the Lightsong studio last weekend, I felt compelled…

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