We’re Made to Dance: Let’s Do It!
We’re Made to Dance: Let’s Do It! It’s been a recent aim of mine to get up from the computer more, move around, juggle, dance, have an “exercise snack”, as they say. And just today I came across this support from one of my favourite authors. Here’s an quote of his, Kurt Vonnegut, (he’s talking...
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...
Hono(u)r Your Mother, Empower Another!
This is a special week for me, and for many of you too — Sunday is Mother’s Day, and on Wednesday and Thursday, Mike and I have our birthdays. For me it’s a big one, Seven Oh :-), and I’ve been celebrating it for months now! Another piece is that when I was born, 70...
Dance! There’s No Tomorrow!
Today is May Day, half way between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, also called Beltane. What better way to celebrate this ebullient and delicious turning than to Dance! I started to write Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow! but then I thought better, and left out the ‘Like’, because there IS no tomorrow, there’s only today! A...
SNOW!!
It was a lovely way to bring in the new year: on January 1 I flew to Europe to spend time with family… first stopping in Bavaria to visit my former husband and good friend Wolf and his wife Angelka, who had her birthday the day after I arrived. Wolf prepared a yummy risotto with...
Make a Joyful Noise!
Just recently we had our annual Christmas Choir Concert. An inspiring feature this year was singing the Gloria, from Schubert’s Mass in A Flat. Do go listen to at least the first few minutes. The message is rich and timeless: “Glory to God, and on Earth, Peace and Good Will to All.” Whether you honor G(g)od,...
Thanksgiving and Gratitude
This past weekend Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving. It has taken me a while to accept the second weekend in October as the date for this fine event, but I have come to feel that the season of harvest fullness is every bit as appropriate, no, actually much more appropriate, than dreary and soggy, late November! We...
Highlights and Insights
So magical, yet so very ordinary and earthy. Eminently practical, matter of fact, and at the same time, absolutely miraculous… that’s the way it was on my kayak trip, and has been as my stroke recovery progressed. Relishing and absorbing the richness of intertidal life while drifting along in a kayak; or lying quietly and...
