Sometimes unexpected things happen. We get thrown for a loop. We feel completely turned upside down, like nothing makes any sense any more. We stumble through the shambles of what we thought was real. And grasp for meaning at
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” ~Epictetus We’re not missing out…our lives are pretty sweet just as we are. In my earlier years, I was out on the
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” ~Dalai Lama So you may remember from last week’s post that I was ranting quite freely about my failure as a peace lovin’ mama. I dropped enough F-bombs in that blog
“The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high, and graceful when it is low.” ~Richard Carlson Hello there! Hoping these words offer some solace and encouragement for the next time you’re feelin’ a little low… For as
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” ~Kahlil Gibran If you’re anything like me, you’ve definitely felt the pull to look young, stay youthful, and adhere to what the media tells us is beautiful.
So, in case you don’t already know, I am a pretty organized, meticulous “clean freak” (or so some might say!), and it really should come as no surprise that in the midst of an intensive spring cleaning of our home,
Today, I give thanks. I record my gratitude and appreciation for every little thought, experience, interaction, dream, hope, challenge, and feeling in my life. Today is day #134 of this experiment. I feel transformed. I now see my life experience
I fell. Literally. Crashed so hard to the Earth that I felt shaken to tears. I was just cruising along, my beautiful girl wrapped safely in my arms, when suddenly I found myself falling in slow motion toward an unforgiving
As I sat with my elder daughter the other day, waiting for my row to be “dismissed” from a delightful performance of Anastasia Krupnik, I chatted with another homeschoolin’ mama about how absurd it felt to wait for dismissal. After
Nonviolence. In yoga, we call nonviolence Ahimsa, one of the first yamas, or moral imperatives on the path to enlightenment. Images of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa likely come to mind when we think of nonviolence.