When a blogger friend suggested that as this unusual year, 2016, comes to an end we reflect on our personal positive aspects of it, the idea appealed. That’s a promise and a threat to me, really. The way I usually meet life, as a series of actions and reactions, causes and consequences needing to be … Continue reading On New Year’s Eve
Category: Life happenings
Chaos into calm
Turquoise pools of summer… disconsolate beneath the clouds of winter ~Me Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it transforms from one form to another, says the first law of thermodynamics. This week's chaos brought me too much negative energy -- which I now offer back to the world, filtered as transformative energy. A person's reality depends upon how one … Continue reading Chaos into calm
Driving through some changes
Something Wild, uTube with Lindsey Stirling and Andrew McMahon If you're lost out where the lights are blinding Caught in all, the stars are hiding That's when something wild calls you home, home If you face the fear that keeps you frozen Chase the sky into the ocean That's when something wild calls you home, … Continue reading Driving through some changes
Changeable times
Holidays in the Bay Area are not what I have been accustomed to in New Mexico. Early December shows off tall palms waving in the sea breezes, while the streets of Mountain View are a riot of color with trees glowing warm in their fall hues. There may be snow in some mountains, but down here … Continue reading Changeable times
Nine days after the world changed
Hate is a poison Love is a remedy Singing out like the sweetest of melodies Hope is a ghost in the deepest of memories Stronger than ten of me Fear is the enemy In the dark and it creeps like a shark In the coldest sea In the deepest part but Hope is the beat … Continue reading Nine days after the world changed
Ahimsa
I learned about the idea of ahimsa from Dan in one of his yoga classes recently, the concept of non-violence toward all living things. Do no harm. The events of this week have me thinkin… Source: Ahimsa In the wake of the recent election today I am becoming aware of the abrupt unleashing in the USA … Continue reading Ahimsa
The morning after
The day after the US elections... Nothing can catch me when I’m moving fast Even those rattling chains of the past So I’ll go like that arrow but with nowhere to land I am losing velocity, height and command We all hit the ground, we all fall from the sky We burn up, we break … Continue reading The morning after
Small shocks of life
Things have been a tad upside down and inside out in life around here lately. Jericha, my daughter, is unusually busy, between work, Baha’i projects and her social life, while the dogs and I have mainly been keeping the condo company. As usual, while I continue to hope my power wheelchair gets repaired sometime before … Continue reading Small shocks of life
On Paula Bidwell
At midnight between last Saturday and Sunday the warm hearted person, a friend to so many different kinds of people, Paula Bidwell, died of a heart attack in her Pocatello, Idaho home. This after a period of failing health. Hearing this only last night (Tuesday), I felt, with the rolling tears, alternating honor at having … Continue reading On Paula Bidwell
Summer Roadrunners
It is evident that days grow shorter now it’s August, even cooped up in a second floor apartment while wheelchair repairs are awaited. It’s downright cool between mountain ranges here in the peninsula between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. This slow reduction in the sun’s daily rays brings strong thoughts about a creature who … Continue reading Summer Roadrunners
Rising Over the Smoke 