My sister died. We think of complications with Alzheimer’s. She was the last holder of my key to our childhood memories. The last who deeply knew my Mom. I am now the oldest and only of my childhood family. I was the baby. Flip flop see saw. It’s bizarre to be THE oldest generation […]
Do you love otters? Learning? Joy? A moment when every changes? A friend shared a movie about a man’s joyful life salvation because of an encounter with a stranded baby otter. Think The Octopus Teacher. It is the sweetest story on the powerful impact of how caring for another transforms our lives. […]
I Am An Inconvenience I have lost my independence. And here it is the 4th! I hope you are going to the beach or a block party! It’s been humbling to ask folks to open my water bottle. Actually I’ve learned to do it between my legs but it’s a little uncouth in […]
We want it to be at times. When it would serve us. But who ever told you life would be fair? And what would happen if it was? Everything would be even. Everything would happen as it “should”. There’d be no personal growth, no challenge, nothing new, everything would be nice. And function nicely. […]
Do you let go? What do you think when I ask that? Is that giving up? Weak? Does it make you a Quitter? Or what else could it be? Is it always weak to let go? I don’t think so. Letting go can be an act of power, of courage, of […]
Do you think that’s true? That a 100% is easier than 99%? I didn’t think so until I heard someone speaking about the challenges of 1%. Let’s take sugar. Is it easier to tell yourself you can NEVER have sugar this week or 99% of the time you can not have sugar? I […]
I just heard there are 7 types of rest. SEVEN And one of the first facts is that sleep and rest are not the same. Did you catch that? Sleep and rest are not the same. I am a “burn the candle at both ends” kind of gal, so that struck me. I […]
Why me? Instead of why NOT me? Yikes! Does that distinction come out of that place where we feel victimized or that we should somehow not suffer? No one wants to. No one wants cancer, or to lose a limb, or a dog. We want our life to be easy. But let’s think […]
How often do you hear someone labeled as toxic? Our world has chosen to cling to that description of behavior. What I find fascinating is that it is often used when someone simply refuses to think as we do: they might be challenging, frustrating, or problematic. But that is a far cry from toxic. […]
As we get older and life goes on, it seems that there are more and more ways that we decide or come to find that we are different. But as we enter Mother’s Day, there is an important universal truth for us to realize. We all have mother’s. And it was planned, and decided, […]
