The Familiar Thoroughly Seen
Focussing on “the Familiar Thoroughly Seen” used to be off-putting to me. Some background: on the Enneagram I identify with the # 7. This type, as I’ve alluded to before, craves new experiences, tends to dart quickly, often quite hectically, from one project to another, is a “grass is always greener over there” kind of person. So...
Famous: Not What I Thought
Famous: Not what I thought… Here’s the context. There are several personal crises in my life right now. We are all doing reasonably well…I am, we are, holding the larger focus, and being in the moment, taking pleasure and joy in ordinary things, breathing deeply…you know the drills. Oh, and humour. We try to watch...
Good Vibrations
Good vibrations. That was the title of the Daily Om recently, and that’s what I felt on our 7th annual mother-daughter bike trip, in the rolling, rich, redolent Willamette Valley south of Portland Oregon. Good vibrations: between my daughter and me; riding along the Scenic bike route through the valley; sharing scrumptious meals together, whether in a...
Earth Day Is Every Day
Earth Day Is Every Day! It’s fine to have a special day to celebrate our one and only home, Planet Earth. It’s even more important that we celebrate, protect, honour and pay attention to her not just on this one, but every day! It does seem, praise be, that this awareness is growing and expanding...
Self-Loathing: Feeling It, Healing It!
The experience of Self-loathing is the pits! Well do I know. ‘Self-loathing is that underlying feeling that we are just not good: not good enough, not good at this, not good at that, not good at … . It can be subtle, we may …compare ourselves to others,…find fault with ourselves, put ourselves down, we may...
