Please Come Home

Please Come Home

I came home, physically, from my adventure in Mexico in late January. Surprisingly, a short-term psychiatric nursing job in my own town had become available. However, not expecting to have work nearby, I had sublet my home sweet home to someone else. I was temporarily...
The Healing Power of Awe

The Healing Power of Awe

Tomorrow I go home. I’ve been in Mexico for over a month. Something has changed in me, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. I don’t think I will know what “it” is until I start living my regular life again in Ventura, California. It all started like this: About a...
Points of Light

Points of Light

The death of President George H.W. Bush brought to mind for many of us his aspirational phrase for the United States of America, ‘a thousand points of light’. This was his metaphor of the country’s citizens, a sea of shining waystations of love and compassion for...