Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings… -excerpt from David Whyte’s “Everything is Waiting for You” David Whyte’s insightful poem remindsContinue reading “You are not alone.”
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Ill-matched Threads
About fifteen years ago, a friend told me that, like a cat, I’d had nine lives. She was referring to the numerous eclectic experiences I’d had throughout my life: bible study leader, Jewish mother, Sufi, artist, poet, feminist academic, and homemaker. But as I look at my life now, I’m not quite sure I agree with her. Woven together, these “ill-matched threads” of my life tell the story of a woman’s search for deeper meaning and purpose. It just took me until my 40s to fully comprehend the continuity of my experience.
Tara Zafft, Ph.D. 