life

  • Cultivate the Art of Play

    In reading chapter 5 in The Artist’s Way, Recovering A Sense of Possibility, she speaks of being self-destructive, and yet she isn’t talking about what we usually think of self-destructive behavior.   We usually think of drugs, alcohol, abusive type… Continue reading

  • The Responsibility lies within you.

    In the past week, I have heard two different ladies tell me that God wants them to be kind to people who are not kind to them…that being kind to unkind people is pleasing to God.   Both say, it… Continue reading

  • My own formation.

    In the past six years I have been learning new software, my body functions the same, it just responds differently.   My arms move, my mouth speaks, my brain thinks yet they are doing things completely in a new way.  … Continue reading

  • Many years of pain.

    Yoga is the opposite of junk food for the soul and when done, I get left with a wonderful feeling, a relaxed stretched out calmness…a great way to begin my day.   What I marvel at is that I drag… Continue reading

  • The soul that lies beneath.

    Julia Cameron writes in The Artist’s Way…   ”Conditioned as we are to accept other people’s definition of us, this emerging individuality can seem to us like a self-will run riot.  It is not. The snowflake pattern of your soul… Continue reading

  • When I am 80.

    My writing assignment was to write a letter from my eight-year-old self to my adult self, and I sat there blank.  I could not figure out what the little girl needed to tell me.   So, I went and did… Continue reading

  • Pain Free

    "A huge part of our task becomes noticing unskillful reactions and learning to let them go. This is not a denial of some part of our self. It is simply the abandoning of actions that cause harm and suffering (mostly… Continue reading

  • Everything as it is.

    There is this thing called ‘something’ that keeps you from being totally happy, at peace…something precedes your every step and lives out in front of you stealing your peace, and when you can dismantle the something making machine, you will… Continue reading

  • And Me

    Today my husband and I leave for a few days, just him and I and the 1983 Chevy truck.    While it may not seem like a big thing, what kind of car you drive, we do however have a… Continue reading

  • Not in Harmony

    Within me there is a frustrating dilemma, speaking out in a society that is uncomfortable about suicide or remaining silent.   Silent seems dishonorable or maybe rude to not hear such an inhumane scream of suffering…indifference even.   How is… Continue reading