How to live consciously

September 14, 2026
To live consciously is to stop moving through life on autopilot. Which we often do. Living consciously means noticing where our attention goes, what we are saying yes to, and whether the life we are living actually reflects what matters to us. It means being present enough to hear our own...

Truth & fact

June 5, 2011
The truth is more important than the facts.- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)This is the fundamental difference between memoir and autobiography.A memoir has a point of...

The hidden homeless

June 4, 2011
When I look at the people pushing shopping carts and toting plastic bags of possessions, they look homeless. You know what I mean. Unkempt. Bedraggled. Dirty. Perhaps...

Be done with it

June 4, 2011
When I was young, I was self-conscious about everything that happened.Each action seemed so earth-shakingly important, so life-changing.With the perspective of age, I...

Setting limits

June 3, 2011
Avoid toxic people.Leave them to God. You can't fly when someone is holdingyour feet to the ground.Yes, these shoes have this saying by philosopher Tom V. Morris on...

Be willing … or stay stuck

June 3, 2011
It sounds so simple, doesn't it?Yet, I know people who have gone their entire lives withoutwilling to be willing.Sure does limit them.A young person I know is stuck in...

Retreat

June 2, 2011
It's been a while since I've given myself the gift of a retreat.I 've often taken a weekend alone to reconnect with myself and write, stepping out of my daily life...

Spiritual awakening

June 2, 2011
have i chamged my timeline? can choose, they don't want you to know. create thread as we wish, conscious chooosing..mathematics accepts axioms...they r known to be true...

Amulets, charms & totems: no such thing as too many ble...

June 2, 2011
We Catholics love our talismans. Antique French holy card Contemporary holy card. Yes, indistinguishable from the antique, except for the bar code.God &...

A family is a family is a family

June 1, 2011
I don't have much to say. Just this:More than half a million kids are in foster care.More than 100,000 await adoption. That's right. They're languishing in institutions...

Rapture fail did us a favor

June 1, 2011
Well, ok, so the Rapture didn't happen as Harold Camping insisted it would.I hope he's not too embarrassed, because he did us a big favor.Oh, you want to know what kind...

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