What's Love Got To Do With It?

What's Love Got To Do With It?

Two years ago, at the beginning of the pandemic, Govinda (my husband) and I spent three weeks looking after an elderly couple, Tom & Linda Carpenter, who were both Course in Miracles teachers.

Despite the fact that Linda was experiencing dementia, every time we discussed the Course, she tuned right in, and offered valuable insight!

One of her constant reminders was that, “love is the answer regardless of the question.”

A Journey to Release Shame

A Journey to Release Shame

The forces that are churning right now – be they planetary, societal, energetic – are clearly telling us that it is time to change.

On a personal level, the invitation is to shed old stories or beliefs we’ve held about ourselves. For we know when we change ourselves, the world changes.

Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to bring an unconscious story/belief into my awareness. It came tumbling into the moment when I unexpectedly blurted out a most surprising phrase!

At the time, I had a house full of family mostly trapped indoors because of inclement weather. One morning, a minor incident occurred, only I experienced it as an overstep of my personal boundaries.

Envision Your Future

Envision Your Future

Have you ever thought about the difference between perception and vision?

According to A Course in Miracles, perception is defined as what we see with our senses, and how we view the world from the ego perspective. While vision is what we see with God/love/spirit.

The invitation for this January (as in right NOW) is to envision your year. One way I like to think about this, is to dream into the future and imagine how you want it to be.

To support you in this inquiry, I have a few tools.

4 Reasons to Journal

4 Reasons to Journal

Recently I read an article about a Bennington College professor, Claude Fredericks, who daily journaled. His diary is considered the longest ever at approximately 75,000 pages! He began when he was 8 and continued until his death at 89.

Fredericks wasn’t alone (although likely the most prolific.) People write all kinds of things for all sorts of reasons. Think little poems, observations, musings, even funny quips they’ve heard. Sound intriguing?

As the days get darker and the weather cooler, why not curl up with a cup of tea and a blank notebook?

Honing Your Super Power of Patience

Honing Your Super Power of Patience

Have you ever thought about patience as a super power?​

It sounds kind of weird, I know, but I’ve been thinking about patience a lot lately.

Maybe it’s because I tore a tendon in my ankle and everything takes so much longer…although admittedly, I’ve never felt particularly patient.

What I've come to see recently, though, is that patience is a quality we have to hone.​

The most obvious way we do that is with our willingness to wait, to forego immediate gratification.

We exhibit patience when we actively go against the desire to have/achieve/do something right away.

The Power of "I'm Sorry"

The Power of "I'm Sorry"

A few weeks ago I really messed up!

I promised my neighbor I’d pick up her mail while she was out of town but then completely forgot!

When she came back, she popped over to get it and that’s when I remembered!

Ugh.

I was SO embarrassed. I couldn’t believe that it had totally slipped my mind.

Rather than giving her an excuse, that we had house guests, I was exercising when she asked and not near my calendar, she didn’t remind me… I simply apologized.

Is Your God Box Full?

Is Your God Box Full?

Have you been using your God Box lately?

No? Are you not even sure what I'm talking about?

No problem!

A God Box is essentially a container of some sort. It can be made from anything already have such as a mason jar, basket or even a cardboard box.

Mine is a little wooden bowl with a lid that I received as a gift.

Take a minute to scrounge around. I'm sure you have an unused container lying about. If not, save the next cardboard box you get. You can even decorate it if you want!

The Never Ending Search: Anthony Bourdain & Me

The Never Ending Search: Anthony Bourdain & Me

I went to the movie theater for the first time since 2019 and saw Roadrunner, the documentary about Anthony Bourdain!

It wasn’t a thriller. We all know how it ended. 😭😭😭

Honestly, the movie made me sad all over again. Anthony Bourdain was such a radiant light in our world.

(Quick PSA -If you are feeling suicidal – please contact the suicide prevention lifeline at 1-800-273-8255)

After seeing the film, I found myself really trying to understand Bourdain’s thinking. I kept returning to a line one of his friend's said to describe him, “Tony was a searcher.”