
From The Deep End: Don’t grow all the way up
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” —Tom Stoppard I have been a child and raised three children, and while that doesn’t...

From The Deep End: Is retail therapy self care?
“A little retail therapy does the soul good.” — Nyakim Gatwech I recently overheard someone tell another person, “Shopping doesn’t help....

From The Deep End: Let’s support dance
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” – Martha Graham My ability to cross a room, walk down a sidewalk, or climb stairs without tipping over,...

From The Deep End: Emptiness has a presence
“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to was so damned awful.” — Jill Kinmont, “The Other Side of the Mountain”...

From The Deep End: I’m nicer than I appear
“First impressions are always unreliable.” — Franz Kafka A quote from Kafka on first impressions struck me this week because his novel The Metamorphosis...

From The Deep End: What do you know?
“To know what you know, and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Confucius I didn’t know until recently that Confucius is not pronounced...

From The Deep End: Signs are rarely clear
“Sign, sign Everywhere a sign Blockin’ out the scenery Breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that Can’t you read the sign?” —...

From The Deep End: Crafting our way through life
“Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging, and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and...

From The Deep End: What we didn’t do
There are many quotes that speak to regrets over something we did, but far more often, our regrets are about what we didn’t do. We can get pretty caught up looking...

From The Deep End: Taming social media trends
“It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.” — Alexis Ohanian Discipline? Ok, now I know why my addiction to screens and social media is...