Yellow Miracles
Almost nothing else represents the emergence of spring as the beloved yellow daffodil, happy and bright after its (and my!) long winter’s nap. I look out into the backyard of my home and see the flowerbed filled with the bright yellow and green of spring. I think some things on this earth just look as if […]
Let it be you
Like many of the great personal development leaders, Jim Rohn pointed out that what happens to us is not what determines our future, it is what we do about it. Someone, somewhere, is getting rich, is getting healthy, is improving their life. His recommendation: Let it be you! Someone is going to start a business. […]
Uplifting Showers?
Since the arrival of one or more rainy days can be interpreted as a signal to slow down and contemplate life, that’s MY choice this weekend! Slowing down to appreciate the gifts in my life is a blessing. Thinking of my life’s energy, love given and received, lessons learned but so often forgotten, reconnects me […]
We’ve got an “extra” day!
It’s More Complicated Than You Think! The difference between the duration of the earth’s orbit and the calendar year isn’t exactly six hours, or a quarter of a day. So, Leap Day is observed every four years, except for years that are perfectly divisible by 100 — unless they’re perfectly divisible by 400. Huh? Got […]
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Help! My “computer” has too much stuff on it! Does yours? And, yes, I am talking about my mind and my life! My life and my mind operate like a computer but are so much more, that it’s a shame I’ve let them get so cluttered. It’s time to exercise my “God-given” right and ability to use that […]
Too much chocolate?
Do you think that there could be such a thing as too much chocolate?! There’s a old joke that says 9 out of 10 people like chocolate and the tenth one lies! As a previous owner of a chocolate store, I admit that I seem to attract chocolate quotes, jokes, and posters (as […]
What’s wisdom got to do with it?
Wanna’ be a “Crone?” or maybe a “Sage?” To aspire to be a crone or to be a sage is to want the psychological and spiritual growth that they symbolize. And it has less to do with gender and more to do with sharing wisdom, using our intuition, finding meaning, growing into our inner potential. (I can think […]
And then it’s winter
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. Yet in a way, it also seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went. I know that I lived them all. I have […]
What if you don’t want a new beginning?
What’s wrong with things as they are? Why are we so easily lured into the idea that something is broken that needs fixing? Don’t get me wrong-I’m all for personal growth and even transformation. But the messages in January seem to point to wholesale changes. I’m too tired to change my whole life. Or maybe I’m […]
A mindset of “maybe?”
Do you ever find yourself caught in a mental loop of negative thinking? Do your everyday worries seem to be overwhelming? Can you think of 5 ways something can go wrong instead of right? Does the glass seem half empty instead of half full? Instead of thinking just in black and white, positive and negative, […]