Who Will Hold Your Hand At The End? Who will hold your hand at the end? Whose hand will you hold? This week, my mom held the hand of her childhood friend, Janne, as she took her final breaths. They were friends from childhood and because Janne never had kids, we became her adopted nieces.Pancreatic […]
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Don’t Put Off Kindness Normalize kind acts- don’t wait for tragedy. When I heard that a neighbor wasn’t feeling good, the girls got tasked with making hand rolled noodles while I harvested veggies from the garden and heated up bone broth to make soup to walk down the road with. So often it is when
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They Deserve Better Did you know…Children deserve more than just 4% of the total cancer research funding. Prostate cancer (patient average age at diagnosis, 66 years), receives more research funding from the National Cancer Institute (federal funded) than ALL childhood cancers put together (patient average age at diagnosis, 6 years). They deserve treatment that isn’t
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Leading by Example A team of champions is stronger than a championship team.Just as you want a team of leaders not a team with a leader.This morning I got to witness what it looks like to have a team of champions, led by a coaching staff that understands that leadership is a lifestyle not a
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The Glass is Already Broken “The glass is already broken” is a maxim repeated often in our house.It comes from a story of a zen master who had a prized cup, and while he chose to use it and show it to others, he also repeated to himself “the glass is already broken”, that way,
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Courage looks like this Courage looks like this. Being courageous doesn’t mean you are without fear. Courage requires shaking hands with fear. It takes courage to be kind. It takes courage to be scared and still move forward. Courage is finding the light no matter how deafening the darkness feels. When I think of courageous
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Trying to figure out this human thing Having a high risk kid during Covid made it hard to feel part of our small town community the last two years. Last night as we gathered for the homecoming parade I looked around with gratitude for the people around me. For while I disagreed with how our
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We never know the full story Suicide awareness month may come to a close at the end of September, but for so many families their is no end to their grief after losing a loved one to suicide.And while many families are pushing back against the stigma of suicide by speaking out about the loss
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On Holding Space What not to say to someone suffering- be it from burnout, grief, illness, tragedy…“I couldn’t do what you do.”“I couldn’t live with that pain.”“I couldn’t handle that schedule.”“ I couldn’t do that.”To keep it simple- do not start any sentence with “I couldn’t” in response to hearing another person’s story of struggle
Elevate Eachother To sabotage or not to sabotage- that was the question the campers had to answer this morning before the start of their final fire competition.Each team was ranked going into the competition based on their preparation the day before- if they had taken the time to chop the wood, make kindling and stack