Throw away your list

The person you long for – the answer to your prayers – is probably right in front of you. He just doesn’t look like the man of your dreams. It is time to throw away your list of must-haves. – Paul Mandracchia My late husband gave this sage advice to many people of all sexual…

Written in the air of a room

Every book is for someone. The act of writing may be solitary, but it is always a reach toward another person – a single person – since every book is read alone. The writer does not know for whom she writes. The reader’s face is invisible, and yet, every sentence inscribed on a page represents…

Hard work for a common goal

Dance artists Dance costume designers Dance directors Dance masters Dancers and choreographers Database administration manager Database administrators Database coordinator Database developers Database management system specialist Database security administrator Data operations director Data processing equipment repairers Data processing managers Data processing systems analyst Daycare aides Day care attendants Daycare providers Day care workers DBMS specialist Deboners…

Imagine what would be possible

E-commerce directors Early childhood special education teachers Early childhood special educators Early childhood teachers Early Head Start directors Early head start teachers Earth loading equipment operators Earth science professors Eastern philosophy professors Ecological modelers Ecologists Ecology professors Econometricians Econometrics professors Economic development planners Economic geographers Economists Edge trimmer mechanics Edition binding workers Editorial cartoonists Editorial…

There is work to do

Abdominal sonographers Able seamen Absorption and adsorption engineers Academic deans Academic librarians Accompanists Accountants Account auditors Account clerks Account executives, securities and investments Account executives Accounting clerks Accounting professors Accounts collectors Accounts payable clerks Accounts receivable assistants Accounts receivable clerks Acoustical carpenters Acquisitions librarians Activities aides Activities assistants Activities coordinators Activities leaders Activity specialists Actors…

Island Community

This weekend I have had the great fortune to enjoy community on an island off the coast of Washington, directly across from Port Townsend. While much of my time was spent gazing across the sound, listening for the nesting eagles just off the balcony, I still had the chance to see first hand community in…

I am my hair

I just want you to love me for who I am; I am my hair. – Lady Gaga This week I have been thinking about the formation of my self-concept in community. The decision to know myself, to have a rich internal life, is part of that equation. Another part of the math is knowing…

Not now, not ever

May god bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away. After a little I am taken in and put to bed. Sleep, soft smiling, draws me unto her: and those receive me, who quietly…