Margaret Wolff
The Necessary Heart
I collect quotes, arbitrary, wildly beautiful pearls of wisdom find me out of the blue almost as if they have been waiting around for me...
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Margaret Wolff
May 26, 20225 min read
Out of the Blue
The first time it happened I was twenty-three and living in Detroit. I’m at a party. Someone drones on about a Gordon Lightfoot album;...
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Margaret Wolff
May 7, 20224 min read
Mother Love
Nestled beneath the rim of the foothills that slope South to the Sea of Japan, midway between the Guardian Mountains of Hiei and Atago, a...
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Margaret Wolff
Mar 29, 20221 min read
Next
Next Looking, watching breathlessly For night to green the day, When Next fans out before me And clearly shows my way. When the promise...
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Margaret Wolff
Mar 19, 20224 min read
The Great Safekeeping
When I was a few days shy of the better part of three, I became very ill with the reigning viral malady of the day. Trembling with fever...
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Margaret Wolff
Feb 23, 20224 min read
What Is Worth Knowing?
In the early years of the 18th century, a great teacher, a Hassidic Master, lived in a small village nestled in the foothills of the...
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Margaret Wolff
Jan 27, 20225 min read
A Divine Invitation
Several years ago, I was invited to a small, but prosperous mill town in South Carolina to lead a 3-day women's retreat on "The Emerging...
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Margaret Wolff
Nov 20, 20213 min read
Gathering
As Thanksgiving approaches here in the Western world, Santas are sighted in fast food restaurants grabbing a quick coffee and menus and...
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Margaret Wolff
Nov 6, 20215 min read
Giving Thanks
The Rule was that no one left the table until the meal was done, but the Rule only applied to the children. The women sprang from their...
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Margaret Wolff
Oct 21, 20212 min read
I Know Your Song
In the time when women ran the world and the world returned the favor, Mothers of every tribe took the girls who no longer walked in...
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Margaret Wolff
Oct 9, 20213 min read
Answered Prayers
When I was a little girl, curls wrestling for dominion with red plastic barrettes that barely contained their sway, I spent every...
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Margaret Wolff
Sep 24, 20212 min read
Truths That Are Bigger Than Sorrow
I’m walking down the Coast Highway the other day, minding my own business, doing a little window shopping, checking out menus at the...
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Margaret Wolff
Sep 16, 20215 min read
CENTER EVERYWHERE, CIRCUMFERENCE NOWHERE
November 2002: We sat on the floor in a circle, twelve women in a hotel ballroom nestled on the shores of Lake Geneve. It was the kind of...
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Margaret Wolff
Sep 3, 20213 min read
The Best Prayer
She was not more than six years old. The early morning dew still glistened on the petals of her life’s rose. She came to the temple at...
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Margaret Wolff
Aug 21, 20214 min read
Dollar Signs
It was one of those flawless Southern California days you see in the movies. We’d been living in Los Angeles for two months. Everything,...
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Margaret Wolff
Aug 3, 20214 min read
“Pearls are always appropriate.” – Jackie Kennedy
As promised. Here it is. The A-ha! that prompted the poem in the last blog. A little drum roll, please. Several years ago, I woke one...
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Margaret Wolff
Jul 16, 20212 min read
One Foot In. One Foot Out.
I’ve been going back and forth, trying to decide whether to tell you a really good story about a cosmic retrofit I had a few years back,...
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Margaret Wolff
Jul 8, 20213 min read
Handiwork
Several weeks after Covid became part of the public conversation I signed up for an online, ongoing discourse with the Irish poet David...
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