Examples of an Imperfect woman
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Repeat that action
Reconcilation: Healing the Inner Child by Thich Nhat Hanh Walking with Our Ancestors "When we were only four years old, we probaby thought; I'm only a four year old child, a son or daughter, a little brother or sister. But… Continue reading
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Free Birds
The comment on the previous blog has me pondering the dance of friendship and even human interactions. There seems to be missing the attaching and detaching, the ebbing and flowing, the going along and then separating….at least what I have… Continue reading
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Bird of Truth
I wonder about the Art of Making new friends, and does this change from when we are small children, what are our needs or requirements in wanting to spend time with each other? How do we connect and then want… Continue reading
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The Function of Mindfulness
"Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child" by Thich Nhat Hanh. The Function of Mindfulness "First function of mindfulness is to recognize and NOT TO FIGHT. We can stop at any time and become aware of the child within us. When we… Continue reading
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Listening.
In the book, "Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child" by Thich Nhat Hanh, he writes about Listening. "When we speak of listening with compassion, we usually think of listening to someone else. But we must also listen to the wounded child… Continue reading
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Grateful for being Detached
"We cannot begin to work on ourselves, to live our own lives, feel our own feelings, and solve our own problems until we have DETACHED from the object of our obsession. From any experiences (and those of others), it appears… Continue reading
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Keep Silent
In reading Melody Beatte's book, "Codependent No More"….I came upon these few sentences that explained so much to me. " Codependency is an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and… Continue reading
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Knows you can….
We believe that courage and fearlessness will arrive before we do something; that it is an actual muscle like thing that comes crawling into our body and boom, we now have courage. But courage isn't like that, nor is being… Continue reading
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I run, because you can’t……for my sister friend.
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.” Buddha I felt the loneliness today of my Aunt who ran away. A woman I never met, yet I… Continue reading
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The Spirit of Joy
As I lay in bed last night a few of the comments about the new Mitten Tree quilt passed through my mind as well as one comment made on my first one (mitten quilt)….and there really is a difference in… Continue reading
