L. Anne Babb's Blog

Many of us spend much of our adult lives trying to understand and heal the Mother Wound.

Life is as short as the memories of those who loved us and what they say about us after we’re gone.

Those who have worked on themselves enough to be comfortable with who they are [...] do not need or ask to be understood by others. The appropriate attitude for a long-term working relationship is not understanding, but acceptance

It can take a lifetime to deal with whatever hand our parents and caste dealt us—so much so that growth needs may never be realized. Even so, there is hope.

Reflections on the flagrantly honest charm of being a small thing with great love.

"The love of possessions is a disease in them [...] If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough." Chief Sitting Bull, 1877.

"Elisa y Marcela" is a film based on the true story of Spain's first same-sex marriage in 1901. It is a triumph of cinematic art, telling an exquisite love story against the backdrop of groundbreaking historical moment.

Deprivations and restrictions are inevitable. Throughout our lifetime, we’ll encounter ordeals that push us underwater, plunging us from times of growth to times of deficiency. Captive to what’s too strong for us, we wait for deliverance.

Since that day when games at Nana’s transmogrified into lessons in truth and atonement, there are more historically accurate depictions of Jesus in my home, even if the Christian church has yet to change theirs.

Symbols are objects, emblems, or language representing our relationship to persons, to the universe, to the sacred. They are concrete realities communicating universal truths.