This colorful poem showed up in my head and heart a few weeks ago, and so I thought I'd share it with you to kick off Valentine's. It's not mushy romantic. Just a short voyage through an inner world that decided to birth into the outer world. I hope it births some love in you … Continue reading Can I Love?
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Love at Full Sight
photo by Stefan Schweihofer from Pixabay “This above all: to thine own self be true.”—William Shakespeare*** If today was the last day you could write, what would you write? I’ve thought a lot about this prompt—contemplating what final words could possibly be heard in the darkness of today’s this or that, tit for tat. But again and … Continue reading Love at Full Sight
From Shaming our Bodies to Embracing
Blog entry by Sandra B Stanford, LMHC “I’d rather be dead than red on the head” was a chant I heard regularly as a kid growing up in Memphis, Tennessee. “Carrot Top” became an unwelcome nick name. I hated my red hair. As far as I was concerned, it did not serve me well and … Continue reading From Shaming our Bodies to Embracing