By Sarah Hodges I feel very honored to have a writer and human being with such an authentic voice...
Letter from the Director: My Hero Quit…. Yay! Vol. 130, April 2024
By Renée Tillotson It’s no big secret that my husband, Cliff, has been my hero ever since...
Letter from the Director: Finding the Heart’s Still Center Vol. 129, March 2024
By Renée Tillotson It’s been exactly seven years ago since this story happened, yet I only now...
Life at the Center: Merely a beat in heart time Vol. 46, May 2017
Nine years can be a long time...or a merely a beat in heart time. I always loved the photos that...
Life at the Center: Cuppa Love Vol. 128, February 2024
By Renée Tillotson In a war-damaged house in a northern Ukrainian town, a young woman paints our...
Letter from the Director: Doing What We Love Vol. 126, December 2023
By Renée Tillotson Plugging away in my Still & Moving Center office at the end...
🎭 Life at the Center: At the Heart of Performance 🎭 Vol. 125, November 2023
By Sarah Hodges I remember watching live musicians and performers, ever since I was young, and...
🌋 Life at the Center: Potent, Powerful Beings 🌋 Vol. 124, October 2023
By Renée Tillotson Has someone you know ever taken your breath away? It’s an awesome experience....
🌿 Life at the Center: WE HAVE LEAVES! 🌿 Vol. 123, September 2023
By Renée Tillotson Sometimes your heart hurts so much, you know just what you need to do. News of...
Life at the Center: A Large Dose of Kindness Vol. 122, August 2023
By Renée Tillotson I’d like to tell you a story of compassion. It might seem to be a story of one...
🫶🏽 Life at the Center: At the Heart of Community 🫶🏽 Vol. 121, July 2023
By Renée Tillotson Entering the Heartwood Ranch community last week with our daughter, Sandhya,...
⚡️ Life at the Center: The Power of Boldness ⚡️ Vol. 120, June 2023
by Renée TillotsonWe were in our early fifties when Cliff got completely wowed by a legendary...
Letter from the Director: For the Love of Music Vol. 119, May 2023
I usually count on my plane rides between the continental US and Hawai’i as a time to power...
🌈 Letter from the Director: Two Knights Crossing Over the Rainbow Bridge 🌈 Vol. 118, April 2023
In late January, our family found ourselves at the hospital for two significant reasons on the...
Letter from the Director: So Many Questions Vol. 117, March 2023
By Renée Tillotson When our family member Diana arrived in Mumbai, India, she and her...
Gazing Back: Life at the Center: Into the Heart of India – Vol. 45, April 2017
This story was originally published in April 2017 and is particularly relevant today for Maha Shivaratri.
Life at the Center: The Village! Vol. 116, February 2022
by Renée Tillotson Our two sons and daughter would probably agree that I have a fourth...
Letter from the Director: My Greatest Teacher…for the Moment Vol. 115, January 2023
By Sarah Hodges When my dear friend Sarah Hodges told me her ‘greatest teacher… for this moment’...
Life at the Center: Vol. 114, December 2022
by Renée Tillotson I like talking about our living bones. About how they manufacture all of our...
🥸 Life at the Center: Counting Your Spoons 🥸 Vol. 113, November 2022
by Renée Tillotson We live in a world of chaotic - sometimes desperate - unknowing, of fervent...



















