life is messy
Kicked into Mindfulness
Most of the long-term homeless struggle to maintain sanity, while some of them never really had it to begin with, and many of them fall somewhere in the spectrum of genius. My ex-husband’s father was homeless. I met him once in the desert, just outside of Las Vegas. It had been 15 years since anyone had […]
MoreThis is what 40 feels like
You are under no obligation to be the same person you were a year, month, or even 15 minutes ago. You have the right to grow. No apologies. –Unknown I celebrated a birthday recently….40. Changing decades never used to be rough on my spirit, but this one has been weighing heavily on me. Not be overly […]
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Thought for the Day: Being a Friend
You get out of friendship what you put into it. If you aren’t giving anything to it, don’t expect to get anything back from it. Transversely, if someone is taking out of it more out than they have put in, they shouldn’t be surprised when the well dries up. You gotta make deposits before you […]
MoreTo my Ginnie Girl
To one of my dearest friends and most honorable of sentient beings, Thank you for being in my life over the past 18 years, but mostly THANK YOU for letting me be your owner for 10 of them. We had a good run, you and I. You have seen more boyfriends and breakups than almost […]
MoreNews Flash: Compassion does not equal Pity
A little over a week ago, I posted a picture online of two gentleman sitting behind a table, staring at a computer, steeped in conversation. It looked as though they were sitting in a living room, working on one of the gentleman’s taxes. In actuality, I was at a bar with some friends, watching a women’s […]
MoreNews Flash: God Made Steve
Yes, this is a little late going up….by a year or so….but who’s counting anyway! After being rear-ended by a UPS semi in July, I am still dealing with the residual pain caused from a herniation in my cervical spine and a concussion because of the severe whiplash. Concussions do not make for clear thinking […]
MoreSafe Passage
“Do you give yourself and others safe passage through your mind?” This question was recently posed in a meditation forum I belong to. Often times, we do not. I have been thinking a lot lately about the labels we use, not just for things but people as well….stereotypes, to be more specific. We define most […]
MoreInterpretation of Part 10: Expectation
“Doing your best means taking action because you love it,” Ruiz starts out by saying in Part 10, “not because you expect a reward.” We all do this, most notably at work, especially if our job is not our first choice for ‘what we wanted to be when we grew up’. As householders, we are […]
MoreDo No Harm, But Take No S**t
The more I practice each of the Four Agreements, the more I seem to expect that others will do the same. The most common pitfall of the ego is to experience brief moments of delusions of grandeur – it gets you into real trouble with reality. Sometimes, I think that by conducting myself in a […]
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