Cultivating patience has always been a challenge for me. As a highly sensitive individual alive today in a culture of urgency and reaction, being patient takes a mindful approach. Meditation is the best tool I have found, putting me in the passenger seat as an observer to my thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Developing a pause… Continue reading Surrendering to patience, helping love grow
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Learning to match my nature to nature
Understandably my dear readers, there is unsettled chaos in our world. The events unfolding in the United States are a result of our broken system. The behavior of the current leadership is abhorrent and filled with hatred, jealousy and divisiveness. At some level, our world is always experiencing chaos whether on a grand scale or… Continue reading Learning to match my nature to nature
Seasons of love
So many words have washed over me this year. Enough for three books of poetry totalling over two hundred poems. Cycling through my ever changing inner landscape, seasons of my soul's evolution, cue the song,, "Seasons of Love" from the Broadway musical "Rent". I listened to it last evening and my mind dipped into a… Continue reading Seasons of love
Riding the waves of emotion
It's been 9 days since my Dad's passing. I have running conversations and numerous signs from him. We are definitely more connected now than ever before which is beautifully strange and has dug up some deeply seeded beliefs and old mindsets that I'm being forced to examine. That's what grief and processing life is all… Continue reading Riding the waves of emotion
How do you say Happy Thanksgiving?
This is a bittersweet holiday for my family and I being this is the first one minus my Dad. The man who always carved the giant turkey and presided over the time we committed to enjoying it because it couldn't coincide with the big football games that are being played today. Despite the fact that… Continue reading How do you say Happy Thanksgiving?