London at sunset

London in the late afternoon is a painting. The stone and brick buildings take on a rich golden glaze, arresting in the prolific green of surrounding trees.

St. Paul's Cathedral 

The English philosopher Thomas Brown said “London is a world by itself. We daily discover in it more new countries, and surprising singularities, than in all the universe besides.”

The River Thames

London at sunset is a very different place. We have a picture of the city as perpetually overcast, blanketed in soggy clouds and damp air.

our genetic heritage

The Shift Network just concluded its annual Ancestral Healing Summit 2022 which was held this January 18 to 21. 

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This enriching series shares the definition of ancestral healing, to understand how trauma shows up in inherited family disease patterns, and support us to gain a deeper understanding of how to heal family dynamics and patterns that obstruct us in our lives.

New Jersey staycation

Our Lincoln Center jaunt was such a good time - and just in time too, as the looming threat of Omicron finally descended on Broadway and shut the bright lights for several weeks. On top of that, I caught a virus (we tested to make sure it was not THE virus) and we had the first big snow of the new year.

value & importance of consciousness

For last year's Epiphany post, wonder | wander | women had yet to absorb the full impact of the January 6 riot at the Capitol by Republican cronies and Donald Trump supporters. 

January 6 riot at the Capitol - Samuel Corum/Getty Images

On today's Feast of the Epiphany, we are reminded that an insecure ruler was so threatened by the birth of an infant that he tried to overthrow the result by putting a hit out on a lone newborn.

Attack on the Capitol a year ago. Erin Schaff/The New York Times

The word epiphany is defined as that moment of sudden understanding or becoming conscious of something valuable or important. Much of 2020 caused epiphanies to be revealed and manifested to us in so very many ways.