Category: Miscellaneous Musings

Last New Year’s day, I wrote a blog post where I talked about my theme for 2017, which was how I spend my time and energy matters. This theme was important to me because I had been spending so much of my time and energy on things that drained me and left me joyless and miserable. I had been so caught up in living up to others’ expectations, I forgot about my own expectations. I forgot life was not about…

I came across a quote by David Augsburger and I have not been able to get it out of my head. He said: “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” I capital L – Love this! I’ll be the first to admit that being heard is one of my deepest desires and…

I recently learned about the concept of liminal space and it gave me a whole new perspective on empathy. Most of us have experienced this space, we simply didn’t know it had a name. The term liminal is derived from the latin limen which means…