by Jule Kucera | Jun 23, 2019 | Blog
The other night I was lying in bed, listening to an audio course before falling asleep. It was Tara Brach’s Free Yourself From Blame & Resentment on InsightTimer. I went through it for the first time last fall and have listened to the ten episodes three or four...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog
I was gone for four weeks, tending to Mom, then came home for a week before going back. Mom said it wasn’t worth making the trip and I might as well just stay but I disagreed. It was good to go home. It was good to have a break because when I went back to her place, I...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 9, 2019 | Blog
Last week’s post was about not seeing. This week’s is about the flipside: seeing but not changing. It’s easy to do. Or rather, not do. I had been married for seven days. After the loneliest week of my life, I knew I had made mistake. But it would have been horribly...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog
There is a photograph from 1860 that hangs in the elevator lobby of my condo building. Most people who look at it, if they look at it at all, probably think “That’s pretty,” or “What an interesting historic photograph.” I don’t see a pretty picture. I see a warning....
by Jule Kucera | May 26, 2019 | Blog
Before we went to brunch, Mom and I waited in her living room for it to be time to leave, she on her petite sofa, me at her table by the sliding-glass door. She had washed her hair that morning and it fell in soft waves that framed her face. Her hair is light gray but...
