Posts from the ‘Wonder’ Category
On April 22nd, 2022, my youngest sibling, Robert Gerard Wonders said goodbye to his life on earth. He experienced a massive heart attack in the bathroom at work while two of the finest human beings surrounded him with love and the sure knowledge that he was held in high regard. Walt, his boss, worked valiantly […]
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Early this morning my son, Zachary Robert Wonders Dearing, asked me: “What one thing will you do today to bring yourself joy, mom?” My son knows my heart is heavy with worry for our world. The war in Ukraine is breaking my heart. The people’s fierce and undaunted bravery juxtaposed along side their country’s suffering and […]
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For the Road to Santiago by David Whyte “For the road to Santiago, don’t make new declarations about what to bring and what to leave behind. Bring what you have. You were always going that way anyway, you were always going there all along.” No New Year’s Resolutions, as we traditionally think […]
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I penned a version of this essay on Mother’s Day 2021. I invite us to consider the idea of finding our way into appreciating the gifts hidden in our impossible life situations, those things we cannot change, but deeply wish we could. To shift our gaze and adjust our narrative about our difficulties and […]
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“Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better, some other time, it will turn out … This is it.” Pema Chodran Abiding truth. This. It recalls T.S. Eliot’s “Hope would be hope for the wrong thing” as he too, calls us to the Waiting. the Being […]
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