The Desire to Speed Things Up
As most of you may know, I lost a child recently. We were a few months before her birth, and the whole experience was the most horrific, physically- and emotionally-painful experience of my life. I have experienced the loss of stuff (virtually everything I owned was lost in Hurricane Katrina), and and aged mother, and even endured divorce several years ago--all in the same year. But nothing could prepare me for the devastation of losing a child. Although I am still not speaking to God, I as a guilt-free person seek to find the lesson in every situation that involves me ...
Don’t Doubt Your Plan
Yesterday, I had a second level ultrasound done to detect possible chromosomal abnormalities in my unborn child. There were some indications of such in an earlier ultrasound, and any parent, hearing this would be at wit's end on how to wrap their head around such information. As for me, I was told 13 years earlier by a psychic that I would have a little girl. I scoffed at her, as my first husband had already had a vasectomy, but life does it's thing and throws you a fastball once in a while. Thankfully so, because my new husband appears to ...
Learning the Language of Animals
I believe in reincarnation. I believe that we choose whom or what we would like to emerge into the world as, whether it be a Tibetan monk or a hairstylist in Brooklyn. Each life will have its challenges, its lessons, and very different interactions with very different beings, depending on the circumstances and environment in which we grow. To me, an animal lover, I had some idea that animals were a very important part of human growth. After all, how a human treats an animal shows us much about his character. But I didn't think of them as having equal intelligence ...
Surprise at 45 – Middle Aged Motherhood
It's really strange how some people can live their lives according to the book, and others just wing it. I have never been one to consistently write down my goals in some journal that I carry around. Rather, they're scratched out on the backs of already used index cards, or the back of this year's address book, which I'm likely to lose before the year's end. But my goals, they get accomplished, somehow. My goals don't seem to be like those of others', though. They are more esoteric, more abstract, than saving for a BMW or paying off my house. My ...
Guilt Free Non-Conformity–Doing Not as your Parents Did
It's easy to follow the norm. By norm, I am referring to following the preset description of how one's life should be lived; or in other words, the way your parents did it. Grow up, go to college, get a job, find someone to marry, have a few kids, and work for a while until you are old enough--or rich enough--to retire. But what if you don't feel at home in that skin? What if your goals don't include marriage, kids or retirement? What if you decided to switch the order around, or you didn't spend the suggested amount of ...
Awareness
The Difference between Blame and Responsibility
People like me are perfectionists; and when we make a decision about something,...
My Enlightened Wellbeing Self Assessment
I just visited Deepak Chopra’s site and took an Enlightened Wellbeing Self...
How it can be a Big, and a Small, World at the Same Time
As of 2010, the estimated population on earth was 6.8 Billion people. The surface...
Realizing you are not the Center of the Universe
Yesterday, January 18, 2011, was a day of epiphany for me. You see, until yesterday,...
Accepting Where You Are
I am certainly one to want to get ahead. I have a plethora of ideas for making...
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Learning the Language of Animals
I believe in reincarnation. I believe that we choose whom or what we would like...
Surprise at 45 – Middle Aged Motherhood
It’s really strange how some people can live their lives according to the book,...
Guilt Free Non-Conformity–Doing Not as your Parents Did
It’s easy to follow the norm. By norm, I am referring to following the preset...
Keeping up with the Joneses’ Bad Mojo
The other day I was ready to leave for the stable. I had put in a load of laundry...
Is Teaching History a Waste of Time?
While on the Boston Express bus last month, I was, as usual, reading over someone’s...
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The Desire to Speed Things Up
As most of you may know, I lost a child recently. We were a few months before her birth, and the whole experience was the most horrific, physically- and emotionally-painful experience of my life. I have experienced the loss of stuff (virtually everything I owned was lost in Hurricane Katrina), and and aged mother, and even endured divorce several... [Read more of this review]
Don’t Doubt Your Plan
Yesterday, I had a second level ultrasound done to detect possible chromosomal abnormalities in my unborn child. There were some indications of such in an earlier ultrasound, and any parent, hearing this would be at wit’s end on how to wrap their head around such information. As for me, I was told 13 years earlier by a psychic that I would... [Read more of this review]
Learning the Language of Animals
I believe in reincarnation. I believe that we choose whom or what we would like to emerge into the world as, whether it be a Tibetan monk or a hairstylist in Brooklyn. Each life will have its challenges, its lessons, and very different interactions with very different beings, depending on the circumstances and environment in which we grow. To me,... [Read more of this review]
Guilt Free Non-Conformity–Doing Not as your Parents Did
It’s easy to follow the norm. By norm, I am referring to following the preset description of how one’s life should be lived; or in other words, the way your parents did it. Grow up, go to college, get a job, find someone to marry, have a few kids, and work for a while until you are old enough–or rich enough–to retire. But... [Read more of this review]
Is Teaching History a Waste of Time?
While on the Boston Express bus last month, I was, as usual, reading over someone’s shoulder. The newspaper article said that our schools’ failure to teach history is a problem that needs to be solved. Of course I didn’t get to keep reading, because she flipped the page on me, but it started me thinking about history in general. ... [Read more of this review]
Supporting Something that Ends up Hurting You
There are people that you meet that influence your life in some sort of small way. And then there are people that you meet that change you in enormous ways. Usually this is unexpected, and you really may not know that you are being affected in such a large way until that relationship changes and you are disconnected from that person. That distance... [Read more of this review]
Filling Your Holes
Everyone has holes. Holes are my description of areas in your life in which you could use a little filling in. Whether it be that you’re quick to judge, or that you snap at people when you’re hungry, or that you think people who live in trailers are white trash, everyone has particular holes that need some attention and possibly repair. ... [Read more of this review]
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