Acceptance Changes Everything
Acceptance changes everything! Try it, you’ll like it 🙂 Travelling with my family in Portugal this summer was a rich and splendid experience… with, of course as it is to be expected, a few AFGOs*. One early in the trip had to do with the cramped space in our Lisbon lodging. I could notice my...
Keeping An Open Heart
Keeping An Open Heart — What could be a more appropriate message for Valentine’s Day than Keeping An Open Heart? But how do we keep an open heart? What does it even mean? I know for sure that it’s a biggie for me. Backing up a little: you probably already know from previous blogs,...
Healing and the Heart
We have just celebrated International Women’s Day, and I am feeling grateful for the abundance of remarkable women in my life, and in the world.  Elizabeth May, the only Green Party member of the Canadian Parliament, just sent out a note about a “dream” she had, that she had become Prime Minister, and had appointed...
Peace in My Heart
A family with two young children stayed with us recently.  It was a sweet connection both for them and us.  We were talking about saying grace before a meal, and Ciara, (8), said she knew one.  When asked, she said, “Peace, Peace, in my heart.  That is where it’s got to start.” We were both taken about by the simplicity and...
Matters of the Heart
It seems like The Heart has been up for me for some time now — a year or more.  I want to honor this and deepen it by writing and sharing some of my experiences, thoughts, doubts, openings…heart matters. When I first started personal work, in my 40ies, I became painfully aware that I had...