INSPIRATION FOR ALL SEASONS
Fall 2026
LET THERE BE SPACES IN YOUR TOGETHERNESS
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls” – Kahlil Gibran
Autumn is the essential space between your need to be and your need to be connected. It is that season when you come to know the depletion of self as a fact of your existence.
We all experience exhaustion. This is especially true of us who spend much of our time and energy preoccupied with being a source of help to those who need inspiration and assistance in this life. I spend an inordinate amount of time with caregivers in the medical field. Our work gives us opportunities to be voices for the voiceless… helpers of those who as a result of their physical and intellectual disabilities are unable to help themselves. This can be draining. Long shifts of caring take energy that none of us can sustain indefinitely. No matter what our occupations are, the constant giving of ourselves and our gifts and abilities will take a toll on us physically, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually.