by Kim Ort | Sep 1, 2015 | Adventures in Seeing, Books, Consolations, Contemplation
David Whyte, in his book Consolations, equates crisis to the “dark night of the soul.” This dark night could be more accurately described as the meeting of two immense storm fronts, the squally vulnerable edge between what overwhelms human beings from the...
by Kim Ort | Aug 25, 2015 | Books, Consolations
The day I posted the word “courage” as the new word for the week, I lost my beloved pet, Daisy, after 16 good years. Daisy was my first dog, and so the first one to whom I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest days of my life. David Whyte, in his...
by Kim Ort | Aug 18, 2015 | Books, Consolations
Confession is a stripping away of protection, the telling of a truth which might once have seemed like a humiliation, become suddenly a gateway, an entrance to solid ground; even a first step home. To confess is to integrate the offending with the offended, inside and...
