Transformation often happens when we cannot see the path ahead, and when uncertainty demands something of us that was not there before. There is a power in white space, the margins. It is the power of possibility.
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Book Review: The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté, MD
A few days ago, I finished Gabor Maté’s The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. It wasn’t a book I’d been planning on reading, but within its 500 pages, I found the compassion and love inside of myself that I have needed to heal, and to move forward in life. Join me for the first of many book reviews.
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A frigid morning revealed the intricate patterns of ice crystals upon the ground. Fractals are patterns that perpetuate ourselves… as can be behaviors, desires, thoughts and other patterns that govern our daily lives.
Frozen Fractals: How Patterns Teach Us About Ourselves
I can see my breath as clouds in an unnamed place on the Applegate Emigrant Trail, somewhere between the Nevada Ghost town Vya and distant Denio. These are the spaces that I have come to love— not only because they are vast and mysterious in their silent histories, or loud with spaces in the histories they omit, but because they ask silent questions of us when we are fully present within them.
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Marlette Lake 50K: Power of Embodied Metaphors
How I got to the starting line of an ultramarathon—my first 50k— wasn’t exactly a straight line.
In a lot of ways, it reminds me of how I became an athlete to begin with— through happenstance that included an eating disorder, getting over that, freelancing for local newsweeklies and then a lot of Master’s degrees. It was a journey one of my thesis advisors asked, after reading my thesis, which turned into my first book: “Do you think this would be in the self-help section of the bookstore? Like, as a how-to for other people who want to get into long-distance running?”
“Good God, I hope not,” I said….
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