“Traumatic: Unpleasant, disagreeable, troublesome, irritating, distressing, also injurious and harmful.” (Oxford Thesaurus) Moving day and three weeks thereafter… enduring the physical and mental stress of a move from a home of ten years, equipped with everything one could possible need including surround-sound and a whirlpool bath with multiple settings, into an apartment half the size, […]
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Category: Thoughts/Ruminations
Transitioning to Tomorrow, Tomorrow and ...
I sit quietly in front of my computer feeling a calmness and a sense of purpose. It is January 1, 2014 and my intention is to write my first blog of the New Year. The title comes to me immediately: “Transitioning to Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow …or the day after.” I can almost feel the movement in […]
Upheaval to Peace
We are surrounded by upheaval and uncertainly; we are inundated with negative reports from the morning newspaper to the evening news and everything in-between; we experience the seemingly never-ending downward spiral of the world as we knew it. We feel anxious and inadequate; it is all beyond our ability to effect change. How can we, […]
“Happy” New Year?
Today is the first day of the rest of my life; today is the first day of the year 2009. Wow! The days ahead are open and welcoming, just like my shoreline visions. I wouldn’t use the word “happy” to describe today or any moment in time; no-one has ever defined “happy” or “happiness” to […]
Water & Sky
When I take myself to the place in the world where I am most me, most centered, most awakened, it is always along a shore, a wide-expanse of water going on forever with an open, ever changing sky as partner. It is there I come to be. Whenever I desire, I can be there –in […]
Musings on my neurosis
To be honest with one’s friends is to be true to one’s self. To be honest is to risk offending, but to withhold, is to incur obscurity. If being congruent is a value, must I always be the same; if being authentic is a goal, may I never play the game. If I wish to partake […]