Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.