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,...
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2 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion, Spirituality, Writing

Wabi sabi, kemo sabe

March 4, 2025
wabi-sabi
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...
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The day I realized I was not a god

February 25, 2025
not-a-god
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...
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Have you found effective coping strategies for this new yea

February 19, 2025
coping-strategies
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...
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How do you mend a broken heart?

February 18, 2025
broken-heart
"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...
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How to come from the heart in these dark times

February 14, 2025
heart-centered
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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7 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Inspiration

A How-To Guide for Getting Older

February 11, 2025
getting-older
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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How to use fashion, food, fiesta and family as coping mech...

February 2, 2025
I'm back east, in snowy western New York state. Haven't seen a cardinal yet, but sure would like to....they represent hope during turmoil. But never fear: Our...
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2 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Stylin', Travel

The political incorrectness of being “color-blindR

January 21, 2025
color-blind
Fair warning: You might consider this post politically incorrect. My doctor's longtime assistant was preparing to give me a flu shot as we chatted away about a...
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How you can help victims of the southern California fires

January 11, 2025
California-fires
The devastation wrought by this winter's California fires is horrific. The community and organizations across the globe immediately reached out to help, but they...
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