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Reset, Fast Forward, or Pause?

I just finished reading a book in which the author made mention of undertaking an activity that “… hit that life altering, magic reset,...

Sep 14, 2022

Pointing My Bow

Last week I read the book Threads of Awakening: An American Woman’s Journey into Tibet’s Sacred Textile Art by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo....

Aug 22, 2022

The Upanishads, Mel Robbins, and Rumi

If you have been reading this blog for the past couple of weeks, you have been reading about my fears and struggles. Though I know my...

Aug 15, 2022

Life Lessons I Missed

Have you ever had one of those a-ha moments when you realized that something very well known to others was a complete mystery to you? A...

Aug 8, 2022

First, Last, and Love

It is time to make a change. I have been thinking about change, feeling the need for change, following the Crumbs leading to change, and...

Aug 1, 2022

What Is Old Is New Again

As I enter a new phase in my life, my thoughts have been filled with the notion of community; it started with a quote in a book I was...

Jul 26, 2022

A Community of One?

Without realizing it, I had stopped reading and was looking at the unalome hanging in the window. I had intentionally placed it there as...

Jul 11, 2022

Longing to Belong

I was afraid. Fear crept in, silently, before I even realized it, feeling like the fog in the famous Carl Sandburg poem: The fog comes on...

Jul 4, 2022

Stories and Compassion

Weariness is palpable. The divisions and mistrust in the world today seem to be growing, taking sides, with polarizing options, this or...

Jun 27, 2022

I Needed a Thinky

“Thinky.” a word used when you need to pause and think something through before you respond, was created by my nephew when he was about 6...

Jun 20, 2022

Flying

I found myself standing perfectly still at the edge of my life. At the proverbial precipice, I was wondering what would happen next. The...

Jun 13, 2022

Signs

I totally believe in signs. Signs in all forms, shapes, and sizes; numbers, animals, dreams, odd coincidences, reoccurring experiences,...

Jun 6, 2022

A Unifying Principle

It was all I could think about. I had been very deeply hurt by someone I love and care about. I was angry, and having a hard time...

May 31, 2022

Too Much of A Good Thing?

Molly Katzen’s cookbook The Enchanted Broccoli Forrest started it all. As a newly minted vegan, I bought the cookbook to learn how to...

May 24, 2022

Conundrums and Contradictions

Lately, my life has been filled with contradictions, situations in which inconsistent elements are present. Unfortunately, this is...

May 17, 2022

Perspective

Last week, I had an encounter with someone I love and care about that did not go well, despite my truest intentions. I replayed the...

May 10, 2022

The Rearview Mirror

One of the most popular Bible verses is found in Matthew Chapter 7: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and...

May 3, 2022

INSPIRING

The Pretense of Accidents. What???

I can’t tell you how many time in my life I have faced the proverbial fork in the road. Honestly, I gave up counting. The frustrating...

Apr 26, 2022

The Enemy Near

For some, life’s quest is a call to action, which seems noble and romantic. I, however, have never heard its call, at least that I am...

Apr 19, 2022

The Great Untangling . . .

For most of my life, Euclid was my hero. Euclid theorized that the shortest distance between any two points was a straight line. This...

Mar 8, 2022

We All Do It.

But Where Does It Come From? I do it all the time, yet I never really stopped to think it through until yesterday. Why yesterday? Another...

Mar 1, 2022

Perfectly Imperfect

I have spent most of my adult life in pursuit of perfection. per·fec·tion - /pərˈfekSH(ə)n/ noun the condition, state, or quality of...

Feb 22, 2022

It’s Never What You Think

Don’t you just hate when you miss the obvious? One of the Happiness Habits I adopted early on was waving. Yes indeed, plain old waving....

Feb 15, 2022