Unsurprisingly, some women - reflecting on pregnancy, birth, advent, and/or the birth of new spiritual awareness in us - resorted to poetry ... My friend Cheryl Lawrie in Melbourne sent a link to this beautiful poem ... And another friend,...

As we come near the end of 2009, I am especially thankful to all of you who have shared in the "questions, conversations, and friendships" in my life this year, as referenced below in today's countdown quote. Thank you, thanks...