Practicing Hope: 4 Week Virtual Study
Tuesday’s July 1, 8, 15, 29, 2025 - from 6-8 PM. I’m facilitating a virtual class, “Practicing Hope” with the United Women in Faith. Our four Tuesday’s will...
Reflection #6 It Is Enough
Beginning Again Reflection #6. It is Enough Reflection #6. It is Enough I am discovering,in the quiet aftermath of change,how much I have gatheredfrom what...
Reflection #5 Spring Invitation
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Beginning Again: Reflection #5. Spring Invitation In this SpringtimeI ask the quiet place within me—what might now growin this...
Beginning Again Feedback
Spiritworks Reflections Feedback Dear Reader, You may have noticed that the “The Gap Year” reflections have ended. You can still read all 60+ of them by...
Reflection #4 The Folding
Beginning Again Beginning Again - by Patricia D. Brown Reflection #4. The Folding I am learningto recontextualize my life— to soften the sharp edgesof old...
Spiritworks Reader Feedback
Spiritworks Reflections Feedback Dear Reader, You may have noticed that the “Gap Year” reflections have ended. You can still read all 60+ of them by visiting...
Reflection #3 I am Enough
Beginning Again Reflection #3. I Am Enough Each morning, I rise,stretch,and give thanks— for breath,for love,for a body that still carries me. I step away...
Reflection #2 What's True
Beginning Again Reflection #2. What’s True I wake with the light,as I always have.But today,there is no office to reach.No clock to obey. Familiar motions,in...
Beginning Again: Reflection #1: The Wonder Years
Reflection #2. The Wonder Years In stillness, I find a tender peace—the quiet hum of a life unfolding,stable, calm, gently known. And yet,a flicker stirs...
The Gap Year: Let the Stories Go
Reflection #61: Let the Stories Go Now may be the timeto gently examine the storiesyou carry about your life. Think of something that asks for...
Gap Year Feedback from Readers
The Gap Year Feedback Reflection 60. Commitment to Ourselves Thank you for sharing with this. - Y Love this, Trish! So much of what you ask or talk about in...
Reflection #60 Commitment to Ourselves
The Gap Year: Reflection #60 Commitment to Ourselves Commitment to ourselves is important. To make our commitment we can ask ourselves, “what is the most...
Reflection #59 Counting the Years
103??? The Gap Year Reflection #59 Counting the Years Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're...
The Gap Year Feedback
The Gap Year Feedback: My thanks to all of you who read and offer your reflections to me and other readers. Here is the feedback you’ve sent these past few...
Reflection #57 Regrets
The Gap Year: Reflection # 57 Regrets Part of me is comforted by knowing that my story and life is not unique. But another part still wants to believe my...
Reflection #56 Forgo the Drama
The Gap Year: Reflection #56 Forgo the Drama “God save us from gloomy saints!”― St. Theresa of Avila Now, in these later years, I see more clearly who I am...
Reflection #55 Harvesting
The Gap Year: Reflection #55 Harvesting “We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. ― Hildegard of Bingen...
Reflection # 54 A Life Waiting
The Gap Year: Reflection # 54 A Life Waiting “The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.” ―...
Reflection #53 Building Bridges
The Gap Year: Building Bridges We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. -- Hildegard of Bingen Erik Ericson, in his classic work...
Reflection #51 Aging and the Media
The Gap Year: Navigating Life's Transitions “Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow.” --Clare of Assisi There are images...