This is not hyperbole…. — What will I wake up to? Are we as a country still in one piece, or has our patchwork unraveled even further? Will transition hopefully go peacefully? I don’t know and I can’t guess…all I am doing is replaying possible scenarios in my head, and none of them are positive…

(Updated since 2018…it just gets worse…and even more hopeless…) Crones Who Care — Day 12 — a bit of a departure from agapé — we can write out our rage. Words matter. Yeah, I’m talkin’ to you, Ted Cruz, Wayne LaPierre, Greg Abbott — and countless other non-empathetic humans who…

Crones Who Care — Day 11 — How Do We Decide? We are overwhelmed, and as Crones we are known for juggling many activities simultaneously. The difference is that now we are sorting through distorted ideas and broken systems that need major repair; it’s not living as usual in our…

Crones Who Care Are Getting Serious Now it’s time to begin what will undoubtedly be tough work. A day at a time, a small step at a time, a deep breath at a time. We are collectively working through despair, keeping the mantra of loving kindness and compassion as the…

Write a Letter to Yourself — Can You Do the Hard Work Ahead? So far in these first few days, we’ve been setting the stage for making change. We’ve done small steps each day, and we’ll continue that. What will change is the depth of new information and what we…

Crones Who Care — Day 8 Feeling paralyzed and overwhelmed? Sad and emotionally distraught? Feeling like you can’t do any single thing, even though we are talking baby steps to change our society? Wondering how loving kindness and compassion even makes sense? You are not alone. Our brains can freeze…

Crones Who Care — Day 7 to Relax It has been a rough week, with grief and decades of trauma ahead for families, with serious social/public health/common sense problems to solve, and with ever-present continous war. Time to take a short break to breathe, relax, and ponder what you can…

Crones Who Care — Day 6 As you recall, agapé is a Greek word meaning loving kindness and compassion. You’ve been trying out some activities and thoughts about the place of agapé in our everyday lives. Tuesday was a wake-up call for the need to change a lot of our…

Crones Who Care — Day 6 How was yesterday? Did you deliberately look for opportunities to help? Or did you just come upon them? How did you feel before and after? Did you feel like you genuinely helped? The interesting outcome is we will rarely know how our act was…