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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.
On a ‘not feeling so great’ day recently, I realized I was looking around my house, at my life, at all the things I am supposed to measure up to. Numerous items and definitions and tasks that have no real measured defined standard. I somehow, I had fallen short of measuring up to an undefined…
This past week was one of those weeks. My month has already been a little tough with a self-imposed everyday blog posting schedule. Eamon started clarinet which has us driving him to school before 8am on Thursdays. And then Mark’s schedule was extra demanding as he was gone before light and returned after dark for…
Drove a different way to Lewes, Delaware. And I saw the Eastern Shore of Maryland again. Beauty shops and auto part stores. Proverbial poverty along the railroad tracks. Great hope and big fish in a small isolated decaying pond. Salt marshes, wealthy mansions, haunted abandoned shacks, and a great naked tree trunk, a monolith and…
Paralyzed, I spend a free moment thinking what would be the best way to spend this free moment. Didn’t I write a list of things to do when I had a free moment. Where is that list? I got to thinking, if only I were on top of things. My ideal happy state of household…
I was struck and inspired by a homily our Reverend Sue Browning gave recently. I am a knowledge seeker and a student of thoughts and actions, choices and acknowledgements. She mentioned this poem called The Layers by Stanley Kunitz and I was intrigued. A thoughtful piece about looking for ourselves, our good moments, our bad…
Sitting in our church service and listening and gathering from our minister. That our judgement of others is a reflection of our judgement on ourselves. That if we were kinder to ourselves, we’d be kinder to others. How do we offer compassion and understanding we don’t have a supply of ? How about if we…
SUNLIGHT Sit in the Sunlight. Savor it, Surrender to it. In those rays are Hope… For peaceful moments, Blissful ease of being. Go sit in the sunlight and let it be the only memory you keep from today to start your tomorrow with. Enjoy your weekending lovely readers. As I’m going to be posting daily,…
I had a marvelous weekend this one past (August 2015) as all my beauty needs were serviced on Friday and Saturday. Mark had won a beauty basket from a raffle at a town fundraiser. On Saturday, I enjoyed the free facial and manicure and added a pedicure and of course tipped my gals. With the…
Today I gave my collaging a break. Wanted to artfully describe the frustration, the real feelings I feel when I go to create and I can’t. I wrote posts instead. And I also wanted to share the other art that’s happened so far. Let the catharsis continue. Create or die trying. Hands poised over the…
One of my very favorite movies that I haven’t reseen in a long time, The Color Purple, has one of my favorite scenes of all time. I’ve mentioned this before but here I go again. Oprah Winfrey’s character Sophia Butler was spirited. After she is struck down and jailed for her spirit, she’s deformed and…
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