Thanksgiving – let us all be grateful
Thanksgiving is a warm-hearted holiday. Thanksgiving is a transformative place of heart and mine. Giving thanks is a chance to reset our inner programs, to notice the cornucopia of gifts we’ve been given, to rest in gratitude. I can feel the shift when I focus on the untold gifts I’ve been given, rather than what’s missing...
Good to Be Alive!
Good to be alive today! Breathtaking early morning light out our window today. The fall leaves glisten, the water sparkles, the city glows with gold, and “our” copper beech tree is luminous. Yes, how good it is to be alive! ...
70 and Counting :-)
Last week I celebrated my 50th Reunion. If you add it up, that makes most of us who were there in our early seventies…Seven oh. It is still a bit of a shock to realize how many years — changes, memories, experiences, losses and pain, joys and learning, … are rolled into that number. It was gratifying to...
Celebrate!
It’s not long ago that we were 10 strong, here in our apartment in Vancouver, then in Bellingham… and we did a lot of celebrating! When I am in a celebratory mode or mood, wonderful things happen, and/or most whatever happens is wonderful. Celebrating is closely akin to joy. It’s not always ‘on top’, of...
As long as this exists… (Happy) May Day!
As long as this exists… “As long as this exists,” I thought, “and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the...
