i am enough

“Heart Mandala” (2011), by Tracy Hart. Collage on paper. I never feel ready for important things: meeting a writing deadline, teaching a workshop, any kind of ending or beginning that needs acknowledgement. A sense of readiness usually arrives a few moments after I am forced to...

Paradoxically, what immediately surfaces for me when i consider enoughness is the consistent and persistent feedback I have received about being too much. Not being enough has its roots for me in being told I am too much. I have been told repeatedly that I am too...

Five years ago I was on the fast-track. Good job. Nice paycheck. Swanky office. Smartphone full of beeps and buzzes letting me know that people neededme, asap. I was miserable. I would drive to work and wonder why this all wasn’t more fulfilling. I was ambitious and wasn’t...