“I’m imagining I’m pulling the disease out of me each time I rip a weed from the ground.” After four months of dueling calendars, I finally had the great fortune and pleasure of having a leisurely conversation with a new friend. The quote at the beginning is something her husband recently said after battling a long illness. Though the quote is slightly … Read More
It’s Never Too Late
“You know you’re a little late,” she said. I was having lunch with a woman I’ve dealt with many times during the nine year span our children have been coming through our local high school. When I sent her an e-mail thanking her for all her help over the years, she suggested we actually meet over lunch. I learned about … Read More
Flying Lessons
Full Disclosure: This post comes with connections to other healing allies as well inspirational posts that are ever so close to my heart… There is no way I can contain links to the recommended limit of three… Grab a box of tissues, your favorite beverage and reading spot, then put your feet up and sit with me for a while…I’m so happy you’re … Read More
Forgotten and Found
Happy Friday, Journeyer! I’m so glad this day has finally arrived… The heat wave that hit the northeast, coupled with a hormone surge thoroughly depleted my energy levels this week. If it weren’t for the crow’s feet around my eyes someone might mistake me for a twelve-year old. I am still dumbfounded by the fact that a fifty-one-year old still breaks … Read More
What Kind of Mother Has No Child?
Two of my cards are in the mail, the third is filled out and waiting for Warren to read. Radio stations are running contests while television commercials are packed with everything from flowers to chocolate to fine jewelry. Everyone wants us to remember our mothers, to pay tribute to women everywhere, females who know what that classroom is all about… … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Size
Size matters. How many times have you heard that statement, seen it on shirts, billboards, or bumper stickers? Two thoughts came to mind when I saw that sign recently, the first being stature, as in height. On a big hair day, and I do mean 80’s style BIG HAIR day, I reach 5’2″, which by fashion standards classifies me as Petite. … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Blame
Follow my blog with Bloglovin In her essay A Hard Look is in Order, D.A. Wolf lays bare one of the simplest yet most profound things we can do to grow: reflect and seek knowledge, clarity, and understanding. “Maybe what I ought to be doing is the sort of discovery process that is enhanced by asking questions — from me … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Change
A thick and frigid, wintry haze blocked the sunrise and dampened my spirit as I drove to work this morning. Bob Segar’s, Turn the pagesuddenly penetrated my yawns, sighs, and sense of dread. I was taken back to my teenage years, to a night when two boys and two girls were doing things they shouldn’t have been, and then many … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Spirituality
One of the key elements in The Five Facets Philosophyis the spiritual facet. I chose the term spiritual over religiousbecause each of us is born with a spiritual essence. Though organized religion attaches itself to spirituality, our spirit is not linked inherently to organized doctrine. Our spirit is our very essence; at its core it includes things like our … Read More
Healing and the Two Sides of Fear
Well, Journeyer, it’s been one heck of a couple of days! Two days ago a cyber monster ate my five-hundred and some new and saved e-mails. Gone! Totally, absolutely, one-hundred percent gone… Though most of them were correspondences I’d saved for further research, there were a few critical ones I’d hoped to refer back to. If you are waiting for … Read More