Expanding and Sending Love: Creating Peace
It’s been much too long since I’ve written a new blog post, but there just didn’t seem to be anything special that I wanted to say. At this time, the tide has turned, for I now have something that is important to me, important to share with as many as I can. It’s about […]
Collage Your New Year’s Intentions
We’re a week into the new year, and I have been pondering how I might best put my intentions forward for the new year. I’ve never kept resolutions very well so don’t think that I want to go that route. Last year, I promoted reviewing what happened the previous year and trying to improve what […]
Feeling Welcome
We often use the word welcome or a form of it in our conversations with others. “Welcome! Welcome to my home. You’re welcome.” We see the welcome center signs at rest stops along interstate highways, offering a place to feel safe and tend to one’s needs. States in the US have signs at their borders welcomng us. […]
It’s a Miracle!
“It’s a miracle,” my ninety-one year old mother told me over the phone from her bed in ICU. “You have a miracle mother. I have a miracle surgeon, and we have a miracle family!” she exclaimed. Her voice was filled with joy and amazement. She had made it through laproscopic surgery to remove a cancerous […]
Summer, A Time to Rejuvenate Body, Mind, and Spirit
Summer vacation time is almost here for most educators, and for some, it may have already arrived. It’s a time to rejuvenate body, mind, and spirit. Certainly, being removed from the day-to-day pressures of getting projects completed, report cards done, and your materials packed away for the summer is an immediate help in de-stressing. […]
The new year is fresh, just begun. For many of us it came in with great gusto and record breaking temeperatures. For some of us, it comes with the making of new year’s resolutions such as: I’m going to start that long, overdue diet this year; I’m going to ask for the raise I […]
Wonderment. That is exactly what I saw in the face of my little grandson as he sat in a pile of leaves and explored them. He crinkled them between his hands, picked them up and let them go, studied the stems, and as you might guess, tried to put them in his mouth. Leaves […]
Making Time
How many of you find it hard to “make time” for yourselves? Yes, there is work, the kids’ activities, the grocery shopping, taking the car to the garage, any number of chores that must get done. Our lives often seem to lack space for us to care of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual […]
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Inhabit Your Life
While driving to my daughter’s in Providence, RI one day, I was listening to Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. She was interviewing Jonathan Safran Foer about his book, Here I am.She asked him what the title, taken from the Bible (Genesis 22:1), meant to him. In the course of the discussion, the meaning was […]
“Peace Is the New Power”
Recently, I was thumbing through a Yoga Journal magazine and came across an ad titled “Peace is the new power.” Since the word ‘peace’ is my word for 2017, I naturally stopped to take in those words. “Peace is the new power.” I truly believe that peace is power; that the power of peace is […]
What’s your word for 2017?
Just before the new year, I was with a friend who asked me, ”What’s your word for the new year?” She wanted to know what word would be my torch, my guiding light, my intention for the new year. She had hers, letting go. I didn’t have an answer for her at that moment. I […]
Expanding and Sending Love: Creating Peace
It’s been much too long since I’ve written a new blog post, but there just didn’t seem to be anything special that I wanted to say. At this time, the tide has turned, for I now have something that is important to me, important to share with as many as I can. It’s about […]
Collage Your New Year’s Intentions
We’re a week into the new year, and I have been pondering how I might best put my intentions forward for the new year. I’ve never kept resolutions very well so don’t think that I want to go that route. Last year, I promoted reviewing what happened the previous year and trying to improve what […]
Feeling Welcome
We often use the word welcome or a form of it in our conversations with others. “Welcome! Welcome to my home. You’re welcome.” We see the welcome center signs at rest stops along interstate highways, offering a place to feel safe and tend to one’s needs. States in the US have signs at their borders welcomng us. […]
It’s a Miracle!
“It’s a miracle,” my ninety-one year old mother told me over the phone from her bed in ICU. “You have a miracle mother. I have a miracle surgeon, and we have a miracle family!” she exclaimed. Her voice was filled with joy and amazement. She had made it through laproscopic surgery to remove a cancerous […]
Mistakes: “Stepping Stones to Success”
In school, as in life, learning doesn’t always happen immediately. Sometimes it takes making mistakes more than once for learning to happen. I’ve been inspired to write about this after reading an essay by Errol Sowers a friend and spiritual teacher at The Stillpoint Foundation who wrote on this subject just recently. Errol calls our […]