Currents October 2025 (English and Spanish)
Last month, I had the privilege of attending a convention for The Magic Yarn Project. I was honored to meet and connect with others who have dedicated significant time toward…
Finding Pieces of Peace
A compass helps us find our way. Being aware and following our internal compass brings peace to our hearts and enables us to become peacemakers in our interactions at home,…
The Power of Honesty
For a number of months, my wife made the store manager at the grocery store by our house quite uncomfortable. The grocery store carried many magazines at the checkstand, and…
The Expansiveness of Pockets and the Understandable Mystery of the Things we Choose to Carry—
Lead photo credit: Anne Nygard via Unsplash There is a stone on my kitchen windowsill—milky white and strangely light and run through with veins of red and rust and brown,…
Go Ahead and Unfriend Me – Or Don’t (English and Spanish)
Lead photo credit: Brenna O’Donnell via Unsplash – “Building Bridges” by Lorenzo Quinn “If you agree with *fill in the blank*, go ahead and unfriend me.” Every time I see…
Navigating Life with Our Soul Flower Compass (English and Spanish)
Lead photo credit: DDP via Unsplash I am delighted by compasses. The fact that an unseen magnetic force from the earth can turn that little needle and keep it pointed…
Currents October 2024
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall In a world filled with competing voices and…
The Smallest Donation Guarantees Success
At Big Ocean Women we are incredibly grateful and amazed to watch how your donations are impacting women and families all around the globe. To give an example, just the…
Big Ocean Women – Young Voices Newsletter
Believing in the power of our youth, I really support this cause. I have had the amazing opportunity to be a part of the committee organizing this amazing conference and…
Choosing To Put Good into the World
Lead photo credit: 2018, Katrina Hubbard Several months ago, I heard about a cybersecurity incident (one of the hazards of being married to a cybersecurity professional!) and was deeply impacted.…
On Planting Hope
We were gone the day it hailed, my husband and I, traveling together for a few days, but we kept in touch with home, talked with our adult children, who…
Using YOUR Core Values to Guide You
“By knowing who you are and what you stand for, you come to life’s choices with the most powerful tool of all: your full self.“ -Dr. Susan David Do you…