Random thoughts and potpourri

March 24, 2025
In and out. We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch. My first thought when I read this was that the key word here is "emerge."So many people get stuck after they enter these foreign places and can't seem to find their way...

Random thoughts and potpourri

March 24, 2025
In and out. We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch. My first thought when I read this was that the...

The day I admitted I was a mindreader

March 20, 2025
When I was a child I could read people's minds. I usually knew what people were thinking. All people who interacted with me. Adults or children. I was a...

How to trust the Universe

March 18, 2025
That's actually a question. Because I don't know how to trust the Universe. I'm not a particularly trusting person. Yep. It's true. I have always been the...

Why I love digging into the past

March 11, 2025
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  ~Joan Didion A while ago,...

Is it too early to celebrate springtime?

March 9, 2025
Spring is just around the corner! I keep telling myself that, as I sit in our hometown of Rochestesr, NY looking at the remants of some big snowstorms and expecting...

Wabi sabi, kemo sabe

March 4, 2025
If I've read one thing about wabi sabi, I've read a hundred in the past five or six years. It's a popular concept found in many forms of Japanese art. Oh, you...

The day I realized I was not a god

February 25, 2025
I have a god complex. I admit it. I think I know what's best and --if it's something that really matters--- I am not going to be shy about trying to make it...

Have you found effective coping strategies for this new yea

February 19, 2025
Given the state of our world, checking in seems to be appropriate. How are we all doing? How are we coping?  And what coping strategies work (or don't work) for...

How do you mend a broken heart?

February 18, 2025
"Love even when it means searching for your heart knowing it may cower and can be broken sometimes feeling it will mend. Knowing it will mend." My...

How to come from the heart in these dark times

February 14, 2025
These are difficult days for many of us. Don't know about you, but my soul needs some calming. I was thinking that a heart-centered meditation might be just...

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