Hospice Austin Volunteers: A Brilliant Tapestry of Love

by | Jun 3, 2013 | Volunteering

Last week at a Hospice Austin Volunteer Forum (an educational event held quarterly for our volunteers), about 20 of us were having a wonderful conversation with one of our doctors about the physician’s role on the Hospice Austin team when a visitor to the group raised...
Repairing the World

Repairing the World

by | Apr 26, 2013 | Being Present

If last week had been a fish, I would have thrown it back.  It seemed that we couldn’t turn around without encountering another heartbreaking story or situation.  The Boston Marathon bombing; the devastating explosion in West, Texas; a destructive earthquake in China;...
Woven Together

Woven Together

by | Apr 9, 2013 | Uncategorized

I cannot exist without in some sense taking part in you, in the child I once was, in the breeze stirring the down on my arm, in the child starving far away, in the flashing round of the spiral nebula. ~Catherine Keller~             ...
Our Greatest Power

Our Greatest Power

by | Mar 21, 2013 | Being Present, Bereavement, Uncategorized

This is our choice in every moment. Do we relate to our circumstances with bitterness or with openness? ~Pema Chodron~ If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. ~Eckhart Tolle from The Power of...
Hearts and Ashes

Hearts and Ashes

by | Feb 22, 2013 | Being Present, Bereavement

It’s six o’clock on Monday morning Feb. 11th and I’m just shuffling off to the shower when I hear my phone receive a text message. It is from a teacher at my son’s former elementary school. Apparently, one of her fourth graders hadn’t come to school on Friday so she...