What does your happiness look like? A wise woman The last couple weeks have been downright enlightening for me. Let me back up even more. I have been struggling (again?) for a while now. Nothing new to someone who has way to much time on their hands to simply think. My current (constant?) dilemma is finding […]
Whenever I see my reflection, I pause for a moment and think “Who am I?” The answer has always eluded me. Am I the me others perceive based on their own experiences and expectations? But I am also other. Step back; forget what was; let go of expectation. Be the observer. Ask again. Who am […]
Our personal awareness of change varies. Some of us refuse to even acknowledge that things DO change. Others are terrified by anything changing, and fight it tooth and nail. Most of us lie somewhere between those extremes. But deny it or fear it all you want … change is inevitable. When I first took part […]
The last month has reminded me to create for the sake of creating. Experience has told me that this is really the only reason to create. We can put all sorts of noble causes on why we make things, but those are just how we justify for ourselves the energy that may be involved. I […]
I started this year’s A to Z Challenge with the sentence: “Every ending is a new beginning.” In that post (Z end in Z beginning), I chose to make my version of the challenge Z to A. Today is the last day of this particular journey. In other words: I am ending at the beginning. […]
In this greed driven age, just about EVERYTHING is done with the first question being “What’s in it for me?” This attitude has led to most of the conflict in the world. It has gotten so bad that we even think we own concepts and ideas … “use MY idea without my permission and I […]
Saint Augustine has been quoted as saying “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page”. I want to be an avid reader, and there have been times that I have been. But these days I seem stuck on the same page. The book got a little darker […]
Fire is an emblematic representation of life itself. It is an ever changing mixture of creation and destruction. It can provide comfort while instilling fear. It can rage uncontrolled, or be used with precise finesse. What fire is will be determined by how we choose to use it. And so with life … I have […]
Today, when my dog woke me for her morning walk, it was dark. The sun had not yet risen, and the clouds were heavy. But the darkness also emanated from within; a shadow on my very spirit. Yesterday was 11/8/2016, Election Day in the US. It was the culmination of a bitter battle … one […]
Life is meaningless. This is not a cry for help. Nor an exhortation of pathos or extreme depression. It is an epiphany. I have understood this academically for most of my life. But recently … and I am not sure why … it could be something I ate … recently I truly came to UNDERSTAND […]
