Lisa DeLuca: Therapist, Coach, Teacher, Writer

Can’t we all just get along? Yessssss. Ahhhh.

Therapists, join me for a repeat of this wildly popular training! Click the link to register. https://ceyouny.deridan.com/the-blame-game-applying-family-systems-to-prevent-this-and-other-ethical-missteps-thursday-4-18-24-live-webinar/

during . The dot you see in the sun is the moon. In real life the sun looks way smaller and the moon looks way bigger than in this photo, the camera is just magnifying the sun’s light. One second there is still and in the next the day switches to what looks like sunset. Everyone gasps and then cheers. It’s an amazing thing to see. After 3 1/2 minutes, the length of the sun peaks out again with a burst of the purest white light you have ever seen. This is called the , because that is exactly what it looks like, you see what looks like a ball of white light in one spot on the ring of white sunlight, then it all turns back to yellow and the “diamond” disappears. The most fun part is some guys started playing Dark Side of the Moon with the exact right timing so that as soon as the lights went out the song ended with it’s last words “I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.” The whole thing makes you know you are part of something bigger than yourself including the the of the in its dance and even crawling in traffic on the 3.5 hour drive home that took 7 hours because all the world made the trek to witness this event!

My mother recently passed away and while going through her things I found this story I had written not long after my father died. This article is about living life in ways that sustain us even through dark days. And the gravity that exists between people who bond over certain indelible experiences. It talks about nightswimming and so I re-published the story on Medium to go with my recent article there about an art exhibit called Nightswimming. Enjoy!

The Key to Time Travel is an Old Beach Towel: a letter to my father I emerge out of the salt water and cover my wet, salty face with one of the old white beach towels that I took from your house after you…

Many thanks to Estefany Molina for sharing deep musings about self-expression, vulnerability, overcoming fear...and Nightswimming! Please read the interview and share your thoughts in the comments. What subjects did we touch on that you would like to hear more about?

Nightswimming, Vulnerability and Liminal Haze: an Interview with Lens Based Artist Estefany Molina Nightswimming is an experience that leaves an indelible mark on the cells. You remember it not just in your mind but in your body: the…

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Date: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

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“How can I ask you to do good,
When we’ve barely withstood
Our greatest threats yet:

The depths of death, despair and disparity,
Atrocities across cities, towns & countries,
Lives lost, climactic costs.
Exhausted, angered, we are endangered,
Not because of our numbers,
But because of our numbness.

We’re strangers
To one another’s perils and pain,
Unaware that the welfare of the public
And the planet share a name–

–Equality
Doesn’t mean being the exact same,
But enacting a vast aim:

The good of the world to its highest capability.
The wise believe that our people without power
Leaves our planet without possibility.

Therefore, though poverty is a poor existence,
Complicity is a poorer excuse.
We must go the distance,

Though this battle is hard and huge,
Though this fight we did not choose,
For preserving the earth isn’t a battle too large
To win, but a blessing too large to lose.

This is the most pressing truth:
That Our people have only one planet to call home
And our planet has only one people to call its own.

We can either divide and be conquered by the few,
Or we can decide to conquer the future,
And say that today a new dawn we wrote,

Say that as long as we have humanity,
We will forever have hope.

Together, we won’t just be the generation
That tries but the generation that triumphs;
Let us see a legacy
Where tomorrow is not driven
By the human condition,
But by our human conviction.

And while hope alone can’t save us now,
With it we can brave the now,
Because our hardest change hinges
On our darkest challenges.

Thus may our crisis be our cry, our crossroad,
The oldest ode we owe each other.
We chime it, for the climate,
For our communities.

We shall respect and protect
Every part of this planet,
Hand it to every heart on this earth,
Until no one’s worth is rendered
By the race, gender, class, or identity
They were born. This morn let it be sworn
That we are one one human kin,
Grounded not just by the griefs
We bear, but by the good we begin.

To anyone out there:
I only ask that you care before it’s too late,
That you live aware and awake,
That you lead with love in hours of hate.

I challenge you to heed this call,
I dare you to shape our fate.
Above all, I dare you to do good
So that the world might be great.”

Amanda Gorman recites her poem, “An Ode We Owe,” to the U.N. General Assembly Sept 19, 2022

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We are part of something bigger than ourselves.

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