by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Oct 7, 2019 | Community, Death/Dying, Grief/Grieving
Animals grieve, not in an identical fashion and, perhaps, not always in an identifiable way. Many, like us, seem to be individuals with hearts that are capable of breaking. The link below is an example of that. Scott Simon, Weekend Edition 5.11.19 re:Mongolia Camel...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | May 28, 2020 | Community, Creativity, Mindfulness
Do you remember reading Lord of the Flies in middle or high school? It’s one of the books that has colonized school reading lists for literally decades in this country. Originally published in 1954 it was required reading at many schools and colleges by the early...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Oct 27, 2011 | Community, Creativity
If you’ve ever struggled with meeting a deadline or starting a project you have encountered what Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art, calls Resistance with a capital R. This expresses itself most noticeably perhaps in procrastination. There are endless ways...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Apr 9, 2020 | Community, Relationships, Ritual/Remembering
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book “Love in the Time of Cholera” set its love stories in the midst of calamity. The title plays on the double meaning of cholera in Spanish – referring both to the disease and to rage. So, love as calamity, love despite calamity and...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Dec 8, 2019 | Community, Grief/Grieving, Ritual/Remembering
ephemera: things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time The life of this world is wind Windblown we come, and windblown we go away. All that we look on is windfall. All we remember is wind. Charles Wright I wanted to write about the challenge of...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Nov 4, 2019 | Community, Grief/Grieving, Relationships, Ritual/Remembering
One of the silver linings of working on Saturday mornings is that it gives me the opportunity to listen to “This American Life” while driving on a relatively clear 405 (another silver lining). On this particular day in 2016 the theme was “One Last Thing Before I Go”...
