On loving and letting go: the dance of attachment and non-attachment I Heather Plett

On loving and letting go: the dance of attachment and non-attachment I Heather Plett

They are all growing up and moving away from home. I’ve already written about my daughters leaving, but there’s more – it’s become a larger theme in this moment of my life.

My book is growing up and moving away too. Last Tuesday, we launched the Dutch version of the book. This baby that I spent years birthing is now being stewarded and lovingly held by people in another country, in another language. She’s got a life without me now. I can’t even read this new version of my own book, and that feels a little… hmmm… what’s the right word… weird? I have to trust that my book, like my babies, will have a good and meaningful life in a new place, across an ocean from where I am. The translators were recently interviewed on a podcast in Dutch about the book and I am struck by the realization that it doesn’t even need my voice to tell its story.

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Trees, Mushrooms, and Me I Heather Plett

Trees, Mushrooms, and Me I Heather Plett

When I wander through the forest, the trees demand my attention. Especially here on the west coast, where trees can stretch more than 90 metres into the sky and be as wide as 20 metres in circumferenc...

4 Huhti 202411min

Honouring the Wisdom Lineage I Heather Plett

Honouring the Wisdom Lineage I Heather Plett

After performing Chopin for a business conference crowd, Michael Jones sat down at the piano in the hotel lobby and started playing his own music. A man who’d been in the audience earlier stopped to a...

25 Maalis 20248min

What’s revealed by the pain I Heather Plett

What’s revealed by the pain I Heather Plett

I was reading something this weekend about pain and how it’s the body’s way of telling us there’s something we need to pay attention to. And then I thought… it works for the heart and the mind too. R...

24 Maalis 20246min

Who am I and why am I here? (And other existential questions about identity) I Heather Plett

Who am I and why am I here? (And other existential questions about identity) I Heather Plett

“So… what made you move to Shawnigan Lake?” It’s one of the most common questions I get from people I encounter in the tiny village I moved to at the edge of a lake on Vancouver Island. “It was time f...

16 Helmi 202412min

(Re)Introducing Ourselves I Krista dela Rosa

(Re)Introducing Ourselves I Krista dela Rosa

My name is Krista and that, over there on the left, the one smiling at you kindly from her writing desk on the West Coast of Canada, is Heather, my business partner-slash-work-wife. I’m holed up right...

9 Helmi 20248min

Who am I? What it means to have an external locus of identity I Heather Plett

Who am I? What it means to have an external locus of identity I Heather Plett

“I don’t know who I am. I’ve shaped my life around other people for so long that I’ve lost sight of myself.” I used to hear some version of that sentiment quite regularly, ten years ago when more of m...

8 Helmi 202414min

Pausing to let joy in I Heather Plett

Pausing to let joy in I Heather Plett

“You need to pause to let joy in.” Those words popped into my head one day last week while I was sitting on the couch, weary after a long day of book-launch-related tasks, which followed several long ...

30 Tammi 20249min

Dear 2024 I Krista dela Rosa

Dear 2024 I Krista dela Rosa

I’m not going to lie. I am nervous about you. No. More than that. I am anxious and border-line dreading you. It’s not your fault, really. You just happen to be the year of another U.S. election cycle,...

16 Tammi 20246min

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