We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Unknown Author How excited are you to get out of bed every day and go to work? On a scale from one to ten how would you rate it? About as excited as getting a root canal? Or […]
Before the Play is Done
Epigram MY soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new day; the last act crowns the play. Frances Quarles From the first moment that I met Margaret, I was blown away. It was my first day of watercolor […]
How to Grow a Weed Garden
The Garden is my Sensei. I learn all important lessons in the garden, and I forget them there as well. And every season comes around again to remind me what I have forgotten.
Saying Goodbye with Love
Sometimes, it isn’t about what we add to our lives that creates the dream life worth living. It’s about what—or who—we say goodbye to. It’s about stopping patterns—once and for all—the behaviors, thoughts, actions, situations, stuff and people that keep us stuck in our old life. It’s about letting go. Letting go of bad habits, […]
What’s Your Label?
In May, I will have the honor of being the Keynote Speaker at a graduation ceremony at my College. I was deeply touched to get the call and accepted on the spot. This school gave me the opportunity to trade in one label for another. It allowed me to turn in a label that shamed […]
Are You Worthy?
Some of the biggest problems, resistances, self-floggings, struggles…(Fill in your challenges) we face stem from FEELINGS of being unworthy, unloved, unaccepted, not good enough, less than… (Fill in your ‘Need to be Better’ at). The thing is, that thought (I’m not good enough) and the feeling it generates is a LIE. We already ARE worthy, […]
Do You Need Ritual?
This past weekend I celebrated 365 days—one full year—of getting up every morning and having a “first things first” ritual of morning meditation, journaling, prayer and yoga/*stretch. *There are some days, ( I have fibro) where the stretch part isn’t much more then bending the parts that will bend, but the commitment to movement, and […]
IF
This week, something a little different to inspire you with. A poem, one of my favorites, and one that fits in well with the Journey we are taking to the Center of our Heart. The Journey we are taking together is largely one of personal integrity, of promises kept to ourselves and others, and of […]
All The Lonely People
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from. All the lonely people where do they all belong.” ~Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles The first time I heard the song Eleanor Rigby, I cried. I was a little girl in pigtails, but I could see poor Eleanor in my mind, her tragic life laid out […]
Word Stones, Building My Soul
These powerful words are the foundation base of who I AM. Not who I am becoming… but who I am uncovering.