How Do We Create Balance in Our Lives?
Balance has been very much on my mind these days. How DO we/I create balance in our lives? At times it feels like a juggling act: balancing family, care of close ones, ones in needs, one’s body, service — locally and further afield, attention to what’s needed at home and in the wide world. ...
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...
Our Words, Our Thoughts, Are Energy
Among philosophers and physicists is a theory that the fundamental nature of reality is energy. On a more day-to-day level, this would mean that our words, yes, even our thoughts are energy too. When I first read this on the Daily Om, by Madison Taylor, it startled me. Our words, our thoughts, are energy? Even if it’s...
Fear, Fledging, Flying
Fear, Fledging, Flying — this trilogy occurred to me as I was watching the “teen-age” Great Blue Herons in the colony just outside our window. What incredible bodies they have! To think they grow from an egg to all but full-sized in a couple of months! I don’t know if herons feel fear. But when...
Age is just a number
Age is just a number and aging is a huge opportunity! It’s been said that we are only as old and we feel. This sweet Chinese grandpa and his granddaughters video is a heartwarming example 🙂 This first version is what I assume is the original Chinese. Someone had dubbed in Stayin’ Alive and that’s fun too...
