Category: English
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The dysfunctional wardrobe
Oh what to wear? That is always the question. I have a very limited wardrobe, I confess it’s entirely my fault. I do not enjoy shopping unless I really have to. When we went on our cruise a few years ago I pretty much had nothing to wear. I went shopping a couple of times…
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Changing the lyrics!
This past week I’ve been driving my very short commute to work without listening to the radio, I guess I got tired of hearing the same songs and not hearing the ones that resonate with me or my life, synchronicity and all I didn’t want to take any chances hearing the wrong message from the…
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Life, exercise and meditation
…Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s waiting out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.”… Pema Chodron (excerpt from her book: When Things Fall Apart) I am busy working in my yard and gearing up to clean my house. Since I am on a self discovery journey this year I…
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The Alignment
“In exchange for the promise of security, many people put a barrier between themselves and the adventures in consciousness that could put a whole new light on their personal lives.” June Singer Resistance is futile can seem a good line in a movie but it can easily be applied to my life. No matter what I chose…
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I am what I am!
“What can I do to always remember who I really am?” Juan Ramon Jimenez Figuring out who you truly are can take decades. Each decade seems to coincide with a different tier of my life. In my late teens I was very focused on moving to the US to learn English, before I had heard of…
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My week’s lessons
“The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.” Parker J. Palmer I have been listening to a lot of podcasts and reading books on mindfulness, kindness and finding one’s true path. I went through the process of accepting the path that I chose that…
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Reading to your soul’s or spirit’s content!
C.S. Lewis wrote: “Part of every misery is misery’s shadow…the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.” I feel so lucky that I love to read and that I have always had access to great public libraries to fulfill my thirst for entertainment and…
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Sunday to Sunday, in February…
When you start to write about Valentine’s Day you never know where it will take you. I got the flu! But before I got sick I got to go to the far away magical kingdom of Swan Lake. The perfect venue to ring in Valentine’s Day week for me was going to the ballet to…
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The Empty Nest
55, a mathematical rule, can’t round it down to fifty, it’s up the hill now to 60. I don’t even know how I got from 30 to 55 in less than a decade. One day I was giving birth now I am considering my soon to be empty nest. My oldest daughter has moved out,…
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The Adjectif of My Life
Nice: pleasing or agreeable; kind; respectable; attractive and delicious as a nice meal Such a short word. That is the word that was always used to describe me. I started resenting that label as a teen. I did not tell people that I disliked their compliment, that they should increase their vocabulary. I did not act…
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