by Marijke McCandless | Aug 30, 2021 | Write
I carry my curiosity with me It looks like a journal and pen Out here in the desert, I wonder, as I walk alongside Joshua Trees and scattered boulders What thoughts will arise? What themes will present themselves? What gentle pondering wants to be gently pondered? I...
by Marijke McCandless | Mar 20, 2021 | Write
Pandemic reflections — watching resilience flourish and compassion take action About a year ago we all became aware that the pandemic was real and would affect us in ways none of us could have imagined. Little did we know, the year would be a pilgrimage into the...
by Marijke McCandless | Mar 7, 2021 | Write
Click here to read in Lighthouse, Medium publication I biked to the mailbox, located a mile away from my new house, to collect the mail. It had been a tough week. My husband broke his foot one week earlier. I was still catching up. I opened the crammed-pack full...
by Marijke McCandless | Sep 28, 2020 | Write
I want to talk about the the magic of writing a love letter — not only the kind we might write to our beloved partner, but also the kind we might write to our mother, our friend, our dying neighbor, or our own self. These days we are trained to write either...
by Marijke McCandless | Jul 29, 2020 | Write
Have you ever examined why you write? I have, and it turned out to be different than I thought. I thought I wrote because I was bursting with something to tell, something to share. I discovered that I write because writing exposes important themes of my life and...
by Marijke McCandless | Jun 18, 2020 | Write
You have probably heard the phrase “dance like nobody’s watching.” What about writing without ownership? There can be an unbridled freedom in letting our words run free without concern for how it might reflect upon us or people we know. Writing anonymously is free...
