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...

A How-To Guide for Getting Older

February 11, 2025
Getting older comes upon us suddenly. Creeping up on little cat's feet, you might say. With apologies to poet Carl Sandberg. One day the future looks endless and...

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