Welcome!

Thanks for coming! I created this space as a container for things I've found helpful as I go through a difficult and confusing midlife transition. The material here may be useful for other types of changes too. So even if you're not "middle aged" - whatever that means these days - if you've stumbled across this, feel free to comment.

Primarily, I want to share some of the books, poems, thoughts and other things that have helped illuminate my own tricky midlife path. By no means am I "done" with my transition - at the time of this posting I'm 49 and still feeling around in the dark. (One could argue we do that our whole lives long.) But I sense that I may be at least halfway through this birth canal of sorts.

Put another way, I have confidence that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming train.



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Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

~David Whyte~