Roberta JonesAug 8, 20182 minAlone: Excerpts from Consolations, by David Whyte "Being alone is a difficult discipline: a beautiful and difficult sense of being solitary is always the ground from which we step into a...
Roberta JonesJul 18, 20183 minTIKKUN OLAMBefore I was born, I have a memory of a sense of awareness about the state of the world—the holocaust, the bombing of Japan, the smell of...
Roberta JonesJul 8, 20181 minDIASPORAImagine the possibility that one unintended result of the 300+ years of white men acting in part out of a submerged fear of the truth of...
Roberta JonesJul 4, 20181 minOne DayOne day you’ll wake up and everything will have changed. This is both my fear and my deepest prayer. And it’s true, everything does...
Roberta JonesJun 7, 20182 minOUR STORYPerhaps you grew up hating whites or blacks, Asians, Latinos, Christians, Jew, Muslims, or Buddhists, young or old, men or women, fat or...
Roberta JonesMay 26, 20181 minTHE EDGEWe stand on an edge. Life is always perched on an edge— the place in-between, the sublimity of becoming. To be true, we can’t limit...
Roberta JonesMay 6, 20181 minEssence What if there is no ‘I’? Does the water droplet regret merging into the river, lake, ocean? Each body has its own essence. River The...