life

  • Loving What Is…

    We would rather be ruined than changed;We would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.~W.H. Auden   What is so unreal is that we believe we can stop change that it is… Continue reading

  • Follow an Impulse Fearlessly.

    “Every day we slaughter our finest impulses.  That is why we get heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognizes them as our own, as the tender shoots, which we stifled because we… Continue reading

  • Steps towards mine.

    My online conversations with family are so enlightening and disturbing, confusing and clear, and they show me who they are, and how they see me.   What continues to surprise me is that they hold me up to an unattainable… Continue reading

  • Happy 4th of July

    I have one week away from home and all the duties it requires, one week to be a guest on earth, and maybe that is what we need to practice more and more.   I am looking forward to a… Continue reading

  • The Key

    “Dostoevsky wrote that the best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison. Many of us live this way, not even knowing how desperately we are trapped by the stories we… Continue reading

  • Keepers of Our Lives!

    Today I watched Chip Conley speaking about measuring what makes life worthwhile on the Ted Conference, www.ted.com   And it has me pondering…   How do we count a good life? What do we use as ruler? What do you… Continue reading

  • The Girl She Was Meant To Be.

    I found myself seeing myself but with my old perception and then with my new perception could see my old self.   It is like looking in a two-way mirror seeing your self on both sides.    Amazing to see… Continue reading

  • The Sunny Side of Life!

    “Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”           Ashleigh Brilliant   Living life forward is all we can do, and the power that lies in each action sets in… Continue reading

  • Universe Plan

    In this month’s O Magazine, “Catherine Price took off for Tokyo with no guidebook and a wacky idea: Let strangers decide every detail of her trip. Four days, 29 brief encounters, one collapsible bicycle, eight octopus balls, 600 flesh-eating fish,… Continue reading

  • Reality’s Parade

    While a friend continues each day enduring the affects of cancer treatment, I had told her I would yoga along with her until she was done.   She thought she had until August, and while that seemed a long ways… Continue reading