The surprising power of gentleness

The surprising power of gentleness

Photo credit: Sandy Normand For a long time, just the word gentle made me uncomfortable.  It was not as if I was incapable of holding a fragile object with great care or speaking softly; it was too many years of absorbing messages about gentleness as a “feminine”...
Practising spirituality like we are learning to walk

Practising spirituality like we are learning to walk

Over the last several weeks, our baby girl has been learning to walk — a deeply spiritual practice, if you ask me. It begins with tentative and almost unintentional experimentation before it gives way to gradual practising, when circumstances (like siblings, food or...