The last weeks of July/first weeks in August are the luxurious height of summer in Coastal Maine, but they also contain the first subtle hints that the journey towards Fall has begun. The scent of everything in full bloom floats through the air, the heat is at its pinnacle, the thunderstorms are the most welcome… Read more »
Right now, we are barreling through a summer marked by great and calamitous shifts in how we understand ourselves as Americans. Most days it feels like we are living in the upside down, or a watery underworld where we can’t exist without assistance, watching the horrors of authoritarianism floating grotesquely by while the GOP cult… Read more »
This is an update from the original post Use The Force written in 2019. Why reprise this now, you ask? Because going through events, whether they are playing out on the world stage, or your personal stage, or both as they are often simultaneous, require a kind of patience that takes practice. We re-learn how… Read more »
We are all connected to one other through intuitive empathy. Last week we talked about how this type of empathy is different from emotional empathy, which is the willingness to imagine another person’s lived experience, whether we have similarities or not. Intuitive and emotional empathy can co-exist and often do, but intuitive empathy is immediate and… Read more »
It’s a relatively new phenomenon for people to casually refer to themselves as ’empaths.’ But I’m not sure everyone is on the same page as to what an empath is exactly. So I, like many people, share in a good dose of skepticism behind the rising wave of #empathslander. Let’s discuss what empathy is and isn’t…. Read more »
Junior Gorman the Younger and I are having a contest this summer: whoever clocks the week with the least amount of time on social media before Labor Day wins. We haven’t decided on a prize yet, but I suspect spending the summer with strong guardrails around the hellscape that the digital social world has become… Read more »
My partner and I have the absolute honor of being part of a big rainbow family. We are at the helm of our chapter (along with his amazing co-parent) insomuch as we are the elder members of the bunch, but this means very little when you consider they are all way smarter than us. We… Read more »
I never got to meet Harry Gordon, my grandmother’s favorite sibling, who was killed in Berdorf Luxembourg at the Battle of the Bulge on December 26th, 1944. What I hold in my heart is a ghost loss. One that isn’t mine directly but is mine to carry. I hold the loss of the partner he… Read more »
There we are, 23 years ago. Me holding this little squish. This week they graduate from Columbia University. I could write an entire book about how parenting the Junior Gormans has transformed me into the best version of myself, and maybe someday I will, but for now, let’s just leave it with this: the gratitude… Read more »
Friends, you’ve got to stop calling your intuition names. If you always introduced me to people as “my weird friend Susan”, or constantly referred to me as “bizarre”, or “freaky”, I would probably avoid you too. But that’s exactly how we talk with each other about our intuitive experiences. Labeling them this way discredits them… Read more »
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