Dad left this message on my voicemail this morning. “Hi Bets! Just had a bracing walk outside, very bracing, very encouraging experience, breathing the air. Okay, call when you can. I love you. I love being alive!” followed by peals […]
A Sunday Thought… Keep your mind as empty and quiet as possible, free of worry and irritation. Rather than struggling or trying to force answers, see if you can relax instead, as situations come up. Instead of being reactive, be […]
The earth has circled the sun twelve times since I went into labor with Claire. She didn’t arrive on October 28th. She waited until the wee hours of the 29th, 1:10 am, to be exact. I called Jesse straight away, […]
There is in all things a hidden wholeness. -Thomas Merton
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. -Echart Tolle There’s much I could write about resistance. I’ve twisted myself into tight, hard knots perfecting my resistance practice. This is an extremely painful way […]
Two years ago, Jesse couldn’t run a mile. Yesterday she ran 13.1 miles; her first, (and according to her) probably her last half marathon. She did great! “I ran every step of the way, Mom,” she said. I, on the other […]
It’s late on this Friday and I don’t know what to write. I don’t know what to write. I don’t know what to write. I think, share the short story that bubbled out the other day, the one about a […]
A Thursday thought… The greatest changes come when you stop trying to change yourself and instead extend the hand of friendship to yourself, exactly as you are right now. -Susan Piver
Driving home from visiting Dad the other day, Claire and I got to talking about what it means to have lived a good life. Actually, I was saying how I felt like there were many things I still wanted to […]