Gratitude and Joy in Spite of It All…
“Let us be grateful and joyous even though we know the facts” is a prayer that a friend of mine heard when he was volunteering with a Lutheran community project recently. The prayer has stuck with me. There are so many “facts” nowadays that inspire less than gratitude and joy that I welcomed the reminder...
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...
Wired for Joy!
At last writing, I mentioned how important it had become for me, in dealing with my dark side and the pains that I’d been having, to ‘Find the Feelings, and Feel the Feelings.’ One of the tools (we could call it learning a new step in My Dance with Pain :-)), which I have found extremely...
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...
Hot Off the Press About Exercise!
This is a red letter day for all of us who would like to live our lives (however long they may be), remaining as fit and functional as possible. Here’s the scoop: At a Fitness Trainers update and Pro D day over the weekend, one speaker on healthy aging offered this current thinking: while genes...
