The Brakeless Bike
Imagine that you had a bike with no brakes. You just used your feet when you had to slow it down. You never even questioned why your bike came without brakes, you just rode it. Figuring out along the way how to keep yourself safe. You lived your whole life with this bike and one […]
The 15 Year Walk
A few weeks ago, I had a dream that when we die; we return to experience the exact life again. We meet the same people, make the same mistakes, occupy the same story. I put it aside, reflecting that it was a strange dream. Further attaching to my belief that If we do return, we […]
The Field of Ghostly Winds
I have been changing things up in my life lately and I was reminded of the extreme discomfort change brings along with it. It feels like you are standing in the middle of a field with high winds coming at you from all directions. The winds are like loud voices screaming at you to get […]
The First Scratch
Everyone says that love is the most important emotion of all. It has been documented forever. After all, literature and poetry over centuries captured the feeling of love. Like the most famous celebrity. The Queen of all emotions. But what if the most profound feeling of our existence is not love, but loss. And it […]
A Quick Stroll Along My 49 Year Old Life
Today I decided to share a little more about my life. There are so many new readers who joined the Friday Letter Subscription that I think it’s important to tell you about my journey here. My name is Christina Rasmussen and 49 years ago I was born in Greece in a small town called Volos. […]
The 5 Legged Chair of Joy
Happiness is personal. A journey, as unique as the way you look. As rare as a doppelganger, as surprising as a few people in the world that look like you. It is the same with happiness. We have very quirky ways of experiencing happiness. For instance, when I say I love the color of the […]
The Water Shoes
Did you know that when you choose a different life, it feels divergent? Unalike the one you are walking out from. Logically, this should not be a surprise. A different life should feel different. But as I stepped into a new chapter in my life this week I started to feel unfamiliar. Even my body […]
The Art of Answering Your What Ifs
Sometimes the new life is hiding behind a tiny moment. Behind just one thought. If you could look inside your mind you would see two words connecting the old chapter with the new one. These words can be missed completely if we are not paying attention to our inner experience. It is almost like a […]
Grief’s Monastery
There is a place deep inside grief that can hold us without pain. The deepest most hidden place of the grief experience is a seat of Trinity to witness life from. I was trying to explain this to someone this week. She saw me looking sad and struggled believing me when I said I am […]
Have I been Faithful To Myself?
I was interviewing Dr. Parker J. Palmer, an extraordinary poet, writer, change maker. And in the middle of the interview, he asked me if I was faithful to my gift. My eyes must have widened quite a bit. My brain repeated. Faithful to my gift? How would that look like? I thought about us in […]