Lights blinking. Voices singing. Bells ringing. Decorations. Expectations. Celebrations. Merry to make. Cookies to bake. For heaven’s sake! I can’t think of a season as full as the holidays – full of sensory stimulation, choices, and when we lose our […]
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Last year, I posted a blog about living with covid restrictions during the holiday season. I suggested external parameters may restrict our behavior, but not our thinking. Restrictions in the outer world are a call to expand inside. There are
Is 2021 a repeat of 2020? Read on...
Since my youth, I have created little altars in my home, even in my childhood bedroom. If I was unable to go to church on Sunday, I knelt before the altar in my room and recreated the familiar ritual in
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During autumn, the light outside is dwindling. Slowly but surely, the days are getting shorter. We notice how early the sun sets in the evening. There is no time after dinner to go for a walk in the light, so
This Little Light of Mine Read on...
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere” Elie Wiesel, Night Trauma affects all of us – individually, our systems, communities, and nations.. . Concurrent with the viral pandemic, we are experiencing a trauma pandemic, according to Dr. Paul Conti.
Shining a Light on Trauma Read on...
At a party for my birthday, a friend asked me, “And what do you do?” My husband hosted the party, he invited the guests and even shared words from my blogposts, to honor me and what I do. In the
And What do you Do? Read on...
I am an intentional optimist. I did not come by it naturally. By temperament, my first inclination was fear and projection of negative outcomes. Not what I would call positive, more like “Oh no, what now?”.
I discovered a lot about myself when I I learned about temperaments, stopped comparing myself with others and expecting me to be like them. As if there is one only way to be.
Do you know your Temperament? Read on...
When my children were young, I used to recite this verse: “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we all should be as happy as kings.” The thing is the world is full of the
The Elements, Seasons, and Us Read on...
Is there a world beyond divisons? I’ve been thinking about an important little word, the conjunction “and”. What would we do without this little bridge-builder that brings together pairs like life and death, inside and outside, contraction and expansion? When
