Sometimes your journey takes you unexpected places. Sometimes you’re moving forward confidently in the direction you’ve planned. Sometimes you end up circling around a boulder, an obstacle too large to move so all you can…
Posts Published byMaggie Huffman
Helping and being helped
Sometimes I just need help. I know that I like to give help, and it’s harder to receive. But yeah, sometimes I just need help. I was setting up the website for my new book….
Playing the long game
NOTE: I wrote this post in January 2020, way before the shelter at home started. I kept moving it out. I think it’s time to now. I haven’t made many changes. I think you’ll notice…
Saturday alchemy
Saturday. The world is so quiet out there. There’s a tiny bird couple who’ve made a nest on my front porch. I’m not going to be able to turn my porch light on for a…
There is no one way to be right now
This is new territory. What we are emotionally experiencing in this moment in time, this pandemic, is totally new for all of us. We don’t really know how to be. So I keep reminding myself…
What have you noticed?
I’ve noticed a few things… Conversations are more real. We talk about real things, more important things. I’ve noticed this in personal conversations, business conversations, casual exchanges with neighbors, strangers, delivery people. Heck, even on…
how we begin to adapt
After spending more time in these crazy, unprecedented times we are definitely in a different place than we were one or even two weeks ago. Time seems to go slowly, but things change quickly. The…
Let’s play a game of “Watch This Space”
In these crazy, unprecedented times we need evidence of hope. I’ve said before that hope is not where we stop, where we stall and remain waiting, because we humans are creatures of action. But hope…
Fear won’t keep you safe
These are difficult times, there’s no way around it. Many of us are spending a lot of time in fear and anxiety. Fear is miserable. I know that we don’t WANT to be living in…
Good is very determined
Last autumn I went on a retreat. It was in Hawaii. It was an amazing experience, and I knew months in advance that it was something that I was supposed to do. I just knew…