It’s that “wrap it up” time of year. For many of us, April and May signal the end of some big things. It might be the school year or a project, a class or a whole degree. Just as the weather turns seductive with its mild temperatures and longer days to lure us out of our winter funk, we […]
Cultivating Compassionate Kinship
Kinship is a curious friend. Drawing near to ordinary people in low places will change our lens for everything. Shannan Martin This past week I did a deep spring cleaning of my home office and realized I have an issue. From all the surfaces, files and low lying cabinets came piles of notecards and sticky […]
the lime green color of hope
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 I love long walks in the woods and swimming in the lake and hiking up mountains. Being outside makes me come alive. This means living in a place with four distinct seasons definitely triggers my happy. But the […]
the healing language of song
Where words fail, music speaks. -Hans Christian Anderson- I know many speech pathologists enjoy incorporating music in therapy. I want to start using more of it in my own work with students. We understand the power a melody has to anchor language in our brains. It’s the reason people my age know how to spell a […]
recalling the art of listening
“Carefully consider how you listen.”–Luke 8:18 Acoustics was my first graduate course. Four afternoons a week for a month during the hot west Texas summer of 1989. I’d climb to the third floor of the science building and listen to a physics professor, decked out in biking workout apparel, drone on about wavelengths and amplitude, compression […]
