May 2013

  • Enough to Lie

    Dr. Maya Angelou wrote this about her mother…"She's very intelligent and often said she didn't fear anyone enough to lie."  Isn't that an interesting line.   Lying is when you are afraid.   Afraid of the other person…or you feeling… Continue reading

  • Mismatched Folks Together

    Many years ago when I was talking to a therapist, she mentioned that in families where there has been abuse and dysfunction, you will have to rise to a social level with them, leaving behind the more familiar family interactions…to… Continue reading

  • A Tough Pill to Swallow!

    I finally finished listening to "The Center Cannot Hold – My journey through madness" by Elyn R Saks.   A very interesting perspective between the woman, the illness, and her career self; how to deal with them all without having… Continue reading

  • Turn down the Volume on Responsibility.

    I see the finish line, the last few feet, and I already want to sit down and FEEL the absence of daily caring.  It isn't that you have to do this or that, but that you are on call, that… Continue reading

  • Useful and Beautiful.

    There was a criteria for organizing your home by which each item has to be useful or beautiful, and the rest released.  (from the book, Simple Abundance, by Sarah Ban Breathnach) How interesting to look at your home from those… Continue reading

  • Step through the Fear?

    How much does fear play a role in your life? How many things do you do, that you don't want to do, because of fear of not doing them? Or, how many things do you want to do, but fear… Continue reading

  • Change in our Homes.

    Real signs of Spring along the mail route! You can see the brown that surrounds them, but tuffs of green sprouting up! Love the surprise and changes I see…each day, if you look closely it's a new painting…nature, doing what… Continue reading

  • A mind game at its worst.

    In the extoots blog I follow and comment on ( http://extoots.blogspot.com ) a response from Finland caught my attention…or a few sentences, where the church is once removed from the congregation in times of trouble. "The sexual abuse scandal was badly… Continue reading

  • Unplugging and Being Free!

    "When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice – once for her self and once for her child."  Sophia Loren As I look upon Mother's day, I see… Continue reading

  • I love you today!

    Twenty-Six years ago today was our wedding day…I was 28, he 32. Hard to believe 26 years have gone by.  Our magic is that we didn't always agree or see life from the same view, but we always respected each… Continue reading