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10/07/2026

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When the weight of the world gets to be too much, and lately it often does, it can feel almost absurd to notice something small and good. The first sip of coffee while the house is still quiet. A dog leaning into your leg. Light falling sideways through the trees in the late afternoon.

But those small things are not a distraction from grief. They are how we carry it.

Nobody survives the big sorrows by staring straight into them without ever looking away. We survive by letting small joys interrupt us, again and again, reminding us that the world is still worth staying in.

Notice one today.
Let it be enough for the moment it lasts.

꩜ Ella

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10/02/2026

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"When life breaks you, it is because you are ready to be put back together differently. Every piece of you that feels shattered is a piece that will find a new place, a new purpose, a new meaning. Trust that the cracks are where the light gets in. And sometimes, in our brokenness, we find our greatest wholeness. We find the courage to rebuild, to reimagine, to redefine what it means to be strong. You are not broken; you are breaking through." --Unknown
Kudos to the artist creator(s)...

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09/12/2026

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One small act of kindness can change everything for another being. May we practice kindness with every word we speak and every action we take. ❀️

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09/10/2026

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Piecing Ourselves Back Together

We do not piece ourselves back together
all at once.

There is no single morning
when we wake
and find all the missing pieces restored,
back where they once belonged.

Instead, we gather them slowly,
a flicker of warmth,
a moment when the ache softens,
the quiet stirrings of an emotion
we thought grief had taken away.

We learn that grief
has its own seasons.
Some days we are almost whole,
and some days we are shattered again
by a song, a photograph,
a wave of longing
that arrives without warning.

Healing is not forgetting.
It is learning to carry
what we cannot undo.

So we sit quietly with what remains,
touching the broken edges with tenderness.
Some wounds have become openings
through which compassion enters.

Some absences have carved deeper places within us,
where memory quietly lives.

And slowly, life begins to take shape again.

Piece by piece, breath by breath,
we discover that what has been broken
can still be beautiful.

Perhaps healing is not becoming whole
as we once were,
but learning to live with all that has happened,
holding the loss,
holding the love,
holding the memory,

and becoming someone
who can carry both
the sorrow
and the light.

~ 'Piecing Ourselves Back Together' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by GoldenChiArt

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09/10/2026

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Let our Scars
Fall in Love

- Galway Kinnell

Scared. Scarred. Sacred.

Three words that hold so much of what it means to be human.

We live in a world that needs more space to embrace shadow, shame, pain and vulnerability. Space to speak about death and grief. Space for the wounds we carry and the experiences that have marked us. Space that does not rush toward fixing, reframing or turning every difficult passage into a lesson.

To be dedicated to depth is to make room for all of this.

Our scars are part of the story.

The work is not to erase them, but to discover how they might become places of greater compassion, connection and love.

When we can sit beside what has frightened us, wounded us or changed us, something begins to shift. The scar can become a threshold. Pain can open into healing. Shame can loosen its hold. Vulnerability can become a place where we meet one another with greater humanity.

Scared. Scarred. Sacred.

Perhaps becoming whole is not about leaving our scars behind.
Perhaps it is learning how to let them become part of the love we bring into the world.

This is the kind of depth we make space for in the Creative Depth Program, where we are still welcoming women into the year ahead.

xo, Cat





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