Have you ever won an award? How did you feel? I hope you felt good. That you earned it. Or deserved it. Maybe you worked hard to achieve the award. Maybe you cheated your way there...oops...how did that feel? Write in to share your story of winning an award, and how this made you feel. The third book that wrote itself through my … [Read more...]
Why Forgiveness Matters
Daily, I'm grateful that I share a spiritual practice with Michael on the phone. After I write in my gratitude journal, a five-year journal and a daily journal, and read devotional messages, I call Michael to read from The Way of Mastery. This book by the Shanti Christo Foundation filled with rich lessons in beautiful language from Jesus … [Read more...]
What Will We Create?
I've been divorced for a decade. Since then, I've been given relationships with dear men - Ben, Bob, Ron - who love me, adventure with me and teach me about presence, nature and more. We travel and stay in to watch Netflix. We eat out and cook favorites. We shell walnuts and hike trails. Last year upon returning from a healing, … [Read more...]
More Together Than Alone
Mark Nepo's book, More Together Than Alone, is amazing to me. This book is heart-wrenching, tear-producing and heart-opening, all at the same time. The language is as beautiful as Mark always writes, while the subject can be intensely brutal, chaotic and painful to look at. And yet...I am SO VERY GRATEFUL. I am grateful that my heart is … [Read more...]
A Way to Extend Kindness
A few months before Michael and I began creating table tents with affirmations for wait staff, cashiers and others, the idea had arisen to share uplifting words in the world. At first, we believed that we'd use envelopes that came in the mail from bills we paid by phone. But when the time came to sit down to create them, I felt called to use … [Read more...]
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