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“Ahas” are the golden nuggets of self-discovery. The eureka moments when you recognize that this Wisdom Lesson is something big.
Like so many others, I base my worth by what I do. I recognize this and try hard see my value as who I am to those I love. But that worthiness by accomplishment stands in my shadow waiting to slip into my thoughts when I’m having a bad day. But I question what defines…
I started my year with an intention to make a few shifts in my life. Here’s what’s happened in the past month. I’ve changed my mindset about my body, about writing, about Me time, and about productivity. I’m in a different place than I was even a month ago. I now live a slower less…
How much time have I spent in my life wishing I just knew? Because if I knew what was coming, I wouldn’t be so afraid to make that next decision. The one I can not make because I’m afraid of what might happen. If I only knew. I have spent a lot of my life…
It occurred to me that even showing up once counts. Everything cannot change overnight but you are worth beginning to show up for.
I’ve been thinking about embodiment. This is the best word I can find to describe this deep need to reoccupy myself. I want to feel as if I know and understand myself truly, madly, deeply. I have this image of snapping myself into a chest plate that fits perfectly. Being inside myself and feeling that…
Due to the pandemic, the subject of mental health has been placed even more into the public eye. I feel we’ve finally been pushed out onto the stage and forced to see our humanity. If everyone was already experiencing unclaimed general anxiety disorder, thoughts of dying by unseen deadly bugs pushed us overboard. I told…
I recently released myself from the thrall of a diet. I had been in the Noom program since February. I’d logged almost 800 meals. And I’d not lost any weight. I no longer wanted to feel like a failure. I wanted to stop feeling like I was some sort of bug under a microscope with…
A discussion arose between me and another member of my family about how to reward children and, perhaps, people in general. He contended that people should be rewarded for their efforts. And I stand for the idea that people should be rewarded for their character out of love. Many people are currently rotten parents to…
We had a fountaining rose bush in our garden. We even built a wooden structure for it to grow on. And then one winter, it died. Eventually the structure rotted and we removed it. I grieved the loss. The garden completely changed from shady to sunny and I planted other plants. Four years or so…
You know me. I’m that pretty girl who waited on you that one time in the cafe in Baltimore. I may have served you a drink at a bar downtown and had a kind and wise thing to say to you in your moment of loneliness. I’m that gal who waited on you in the…
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