Posts by Pat:
Aging or..?
As a woman of “a certain age” I am still in process, in the midst of an unfinished story.
And I aspire to be a “crone” or maybe even a “sage.” I want the psychological and spiritual growth that those terms symbolize.
The *crone is the woman in her third stage of womanhood with her mastery of life’s experiences. She is the elder, the wise woman. She is the third aspect of the ancient Triple Goddess (with the maiden and the mother).
And these terms has less to do with gender and more to do with
- finding meaning,
- using our intuition,
- sharing wisdom,
- growing into our potential.
(I can think of some exceptional men who would qualify as crones* such as Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama. Can you?)
We each have our full lifetime as the material to work with. And until this life span is over, we are all still in process, in the midst of an unfinished story. And what we do with our lives is our magnum opus, or great work of personal creativity. When we acquire a “crones-eye” view, we will see ourselves and others from the perspective of our higher self rather than our ego.
Aging well is a goal worth pursuing.
To be wise, we need to let go of what
- should have been,
- could have been,
- might have been.
Crones Don’t Whine is the title of this great little book by Jean Shinoda Bolen!
- What was, was.
- What is, is.
- Plain and simple.
We are stronger, smarter, happier, and wiser!
It’s all about what we do with the life we were given, what we have learned, and who we have become that matters to us as spiritual beings on a human path!
Any other would-be crones out there?
Stories have lessons…
Stories are everywhere and can be fun to discover. And there’s so much we can learn from them…kind of like “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”! Whether it’s Harry Potter or Aesop’s Fables or even the Bible…they’re all gifts to us. Here are some favorite lessons of mine, gleaned from the story […]
On empty?
Does your fuel tank ever run empty? Is your life, like mine, filled with things to do, places to go, people to see, goals to achieve? Do we cram our schedule, our home, our head and our belly until they are too full? Are we chronically over scheduling ourselves? If everything seems too full, we […]
How many ideas do we need?
There’s a Greek poem in which a cunning fox tries (and continually fails) to catch the seemingly vulnerable hedgehog. The fox keeps plotting the perfect attack. He keeps coming up with new ideas on how to be able to catch the hedgehog. The rather simplistic hedgehog goes about its business unaware. When the fox ambushes, […]
we didn’t miss it…
Though Random Acts of Kindness was last week, we haven’t missed our chance! We can use this next week. Are you up to the challenge? For the next seven days, we can pick one thing from these seven ideas (or from your own list!) They won’t take long and we will be amazed at how […]
Am I a Tigger?
Does today’s world seem like a never-ending battle between the Tiggers and the Eeyores of “Winnie the Pooh” fame? Did Eeyore get a bad rap? And am I seen as a Pollyanna and annoying to be around by the more pessimistic folks? I know I have taken pride in being upbeat and rather Tigger-like in […]
Picking that first domino!
Got any dominoes in your life? The Guinness Book of World Records shows that many record “domino falls” have been recorded and then toppled. One in July 2016, as seen on YouTube, showed 10,266 dominos. The physics of dominos: since each standing “domino” represents a small amount of potential energy, the more we line up, […]
this season of life…
You know…time has a way of moving quickly and catching us unaware of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, embarking on my life, then I was mature and making a good life. Yet in a way, it also seems like eons ago, and I often wonder where all the years […]
Shift our mindset?
Am I the only one who has caught myself in a mental loop of negative thinking? Where everyday worries seem to be overwhelming? Thinking of 5 ways something could go wrong instead of right? When the glass seems half empty instead of half full? Instead of thinking in black or white, positive or negative, good […]
a favorite of mine…
I’m currently rereading one of my favorite authors from years past…Isaac Asimov. (I’m into robots yet again!) And I have a story from him that I’ll share with you here: In 1925, one year before he entered school, Isaac Asimov taught himself to read. His father, uneducated and thus unable to support his son in […]