reality

  • One Real Me

    “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”    ~Abraham Lincoln   I love the simplicity of how this shows you can name anything… Continue reading

  • Building me on Reality

    What has stayed with me from reading “The Four Agreements” the companion book, by Don Miguel Ruiz, is that our faith in something means more than the ‘something’.   Simply holding tightly to faith at all costs.   I had… Continue reading

  • A Mother who Walks in Reality.

    Last night I read, “Hannah’s Gift” by Maria Housden, Lessons from a Life Fully Lived.    What a great gift they gave each other as they bravely faced life as it unfolded for each of them, in truth.   For… Continue reading

  • The Land of Pretend.

    “Notice When Your Thoughts Argue With Reality”             Byron Katie   I know as I approach working full time, my head has to be on board; my thoughts have to agree with where I am.   If I… Continue reading

  • Caught

    One last section from ‘Sickened’…by Julie Gregory.   Spring thaws the farmhouse, and in front of the mirrors, my breasts begin to form. They get white, tigerlike stretch marks on their sides from a burst of growth.  My hipbones expand… Continue reading

  • Awareness of Self

    It is interesting to me that when you see someone in denial you automatically think that they just need to see reality.   What is a much deeper problem is the ways in which they have lived to ‘not see… Continue reading

  • Reality has no Delete Buttons

      I am way confused about the applications of religion, the way religion believes that you can hand over your burdens to God, that Jesus will carry the things you don’t want to deal with, that he is a dumping… 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

  • Indifferent to Love.

    “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool.”              Richard Feynman   It is amazing to me how a fool will take my place, how the mental lady slips… Continue reading

  • Welcome to Reality.

    “Meditation is running into reality.  It does not insulate you from the pain of life.  It allows you to delve so deeply into life and all its aspects that you pierce the pain barrier and go beyond suffering.”   Henepola… Continue reading