memories

  • His Daughter to Live hers Well.

    Dates on the calendar can stir up memories – a glimmer of significance to the day. My father would have turned 96 today – he’s been gone now 13 years – but he was gone for me long before that… Continue reading

  • Coming From Whence We Came…

    Our book club is reading the book, "leaving the Saints" by Martha Beck…this section was particularly affirming to me when I first read her book about five years ago. She recounts how her life began to make sense after getting… Continue reading

  • Protected me.

    For six years I have been saying that I have no memory, and I have lied. I have no mind memory, but my body has always had its memory. I don’t have actual vivid stories to recount, but I do… Continue reading

  • Production of Evil

    I am thinking Alice Miller may be one of my new favorite authors on Childhood and its affects as well as understanding why parents do what they do. Here is what she writes on the back of her book, “Banished… Continue reading

  • Attend to me.

    In the past few days I have been tangled and untangled, in the present and in the past, with my mother and with my boss, young and then old, a child then an adult, feelings from the past trickling into… Continue reading

  • Cold without a Heart

    “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ~Confucius Going forward with your whole heart is heart breaking, for you are wrenching your heart out from all the people you gave it to. What I failed to understand that it… Continue reading

  • The Life of Me

    About 5 years ago my daughter received in the mail a manila envelope from my mother, inside were pictures of me. Baby pictures, school pictures, snapshots of me alone and me with siblings, even my high school graduation picture, all… Continue reading

  • Affirmed by His Experiences

    Maha Mudra, a chapter from Waking by Matthew Sanford.   “When I return home from the hospital, everything seems the same – my blue velvet chair, the sounds of my fridge, the creaking of my wood floors.  Everything except for… Continue reading

  • Energy Leaks and Memory Maturation.

    Energy Leaks and Memory Maturation. (Awakening Intuition – Mona Lisa Schulz)   Imagine that every one of us is a set of encyclopedias.  In the present perhaps your life has reached volume 17. But something back in volume 2, in… Continue reading

  • “Awakening Intuition” by Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz

     Memory and Emotion   One theory about the way the memory functions holds that all memory are not completely preserved and that forgetting things means that our memories have been lost from storage.  Another theory holds that nothing we experience… Continue reading