Our April Touchstones theme is “Grief.” While many do not want to explore grief, people may experience grief with few resources and little wisdom. Myths about grief and messages that … Continue reading April 2023 Touchstones: Grief
Our March Touchstones theme is “Trust.” As Martin Buber wrote, human beings are promise-making, promise-keeping, promise-breaking, and promise-renewing creatures. We evoke trust, fulfill it, betray it, and then seek to … Continue reading March 2023 Touchstones: Trust
Our February Touchstones theme is “Resilience.” Resilience is the capacity to deal with adversity, trauma, stress, significant change, and other challenging life experiences, including illness, job loss, heartbreak, family problems, … Continue reading February 2023 Touchstones: Resilience
Our January Touchstones theme is “Wintering.” Wintering is the process of navigating winter, a season that is, in many ways, a time of regeneration. Of course, there is the external … Continue reading January 2023 Touchstones: Wintering
Our December Touchstones theme is “Joy.” We certainly know joy when we feel it, but it is challenging to capture its essence in words. Joy and happiness are often considered … Continue reading December 2022 Touchstones: Joy
Our November Touchstones theme is “Remembrance.” What comes to your mind unbidden? What involuntary, autobiographical memories emerge because of cues encountered in everyday life that evoke recollections of the past … Continue reading November 2022 Touchstones: Remembrance
Our October Touchstones theme is “Awe.” Consider walking the Trail of 100 Giants in the Giant Sequoia National Monument, standing at Mather Point on the South Rim of the Grand … Continue reading October 2022 Touchstones: Awe
Our September Touchstones theme is “Awakening.” So, here’s the deal. You are born. You take your first breath, gasping like a fish out of water, which, in a sense, you … Continue reading September 2022 Touchstones: Awakening
We could insist on straight lines, alternative facts, unchanging clarity, and comforting deceit to hold back time and change, and everything else that induces fear and anxiety in the world. … Continue reading August 2022 Touchstones: Ambiguity/Paradox
Our July Touchstones theme is “Circle of Life.” As Chief Black Elk said, “Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.” Yin and yang, these complementary … Continue reading July 2022 Touchstones: Circle of Life
