Tag Archive | gratitude
Cat Mastery: Felines teach detachment, surrender, trust, the importance of freedom
Dearest readers, When the student is ready, the cat will appear. In my case, on October 1, 2019, a 4 month old male kitten, Titi Snowth, showed up on my patio, hungry. I took pity and started feeding him once a day, promising myself I wouldn’t get too invested. I don’t usually feed wild animals. […]
Everything is perfect
Dearest readers, The concept that everything is perfect right now, not only in our lives, but in the world, is a challenging concept to swallow. But it is also very relaxing to realize that we need only to shift our perspective on what we are experiencing to dramatically change the quality of our life experiences. […]
Art and healing the collective body: reconfiguring controversial public art
Dearest readers, A friend and very talented and compassionate fellow writer recently shared with me the fascinating and horrifying true story of her ancestor, Massachusetts Puritan Hannah Duston (1657-1736). Hannah Duston has been commemorated and was at one time celebrated for her brutal and vengeful acts of scalping and murdering in their sleep 10 Native […]
The Light Quotient and self-healing
Close to 2,000 people take part in the “I Meditate” Africa Month Program in Richmond, South Africa, on May 27, 2017. “I Meditate” is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization devoted to teaching meditation as part of self discipline and peace building, especially in prisons, schools, educational and social institutions, and in highly stressful environments. The town […]
Why kindness matters
Hello readers! I am about 200 or so pages into book 2 of The Century Trilogy, “Winter of the World” by Ken Follett. What is so compelling about Follett’s portrayal of our recent history in this epic series is how he helps the reader to see the primary motivating factors at work in human nature through […]
Letting go…how to be in the flow of life as a parent
Hello readers, You may have noticed that self-love is one of my most frequently used tags on this blog. While everything in our societies is conspiring for us to neglect and hate ourselves, all while making us believe we are extremely important, self-love is the most important goal in achieving awareness of the true unity […]
Celebrating Fear on Halloween
Hello readers, Just thinking about fear on Halloween, and how living in a fluctuating, chaotic world causes us each to create some kind of survival strategy based on how we deal with reality. In traditional cultures, people fear the ghosts of their ancestors which may return to do harm. By dressing up in fearsome costumes, […]
Merbdelia: In Memory of (a poem)
All fur and bone, a tiny love energy of life almost spent yet enough left over to rest her tiny head on the crook of my arm Her entire last night at my side my eyes mist with the fullness of tears gratitude for the mystery; a gift of love from the smallest of creatures […]
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