Licia’s Observations
The Sandpaper of Life…Coming into Integrity

The Sandpaper of Life…Coming into Integrity

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”  -Oprah Winfrey  in·teg·ri·ty (from Dictionary.com) noun adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty....

Family of the Heart

Family of the Heart

As Jess and I have been traveling through the southwest, we have stopped to see folks that we consider dear to us: folks that we've met on our years-long family vision quest (www.berrytrip.us), folks that we knew when we lived in some places, folks that are even...

A Thank You from Jess Berry

A Thank You from Jess Berry

(This was written by Jess to thank the people that contributed to his medical campaign when he was injured March 24, 2013) Dear Generous Contributors, As I sit down to write this letter, I am feeling so incredibly supported and loved, by everyone in my life. You have...

The Land Where We Belong

The Land Where We Belong

For many years I had the odd awareness that "my body was the earth".  I don't know quite how to explain the sensation of feeling earthquakes in my belly, or feeling trees being cut down in the Amazon in my heart....but it was a sensation that the planet and my body...