It’s me again. Maybe you can tell by my ramblings that I am trying to let go of old ideas and birth something new in me. I guess I am writing about this because I wonder if others are feeling the same too. Brene Brown shared in one of her latest podcasts about her time […]
Today in my Philosophers Notes, I was asked to answer the question, “What lights me up? What is my passion?” It was easy for me to answer writing because I have been doing it all my life. It is my way of expressing myself and understanding the world around me. I also have to say […]
In a wonderful little book called “Let in the Light” , the author, Patrica H. Livingston, talks about reframing a situation so that you see the positive instead of the negative. She shares a story about her daughter in labor in a very noisy busy hospital and realized that she was complaining endlessly until her […]
My oldest daughter is home from college for her spring break. I am keenly aware of how the energy in our house changes when she is home. She brings sunshine and love wherever she goes, and when she is with her two sisters, giggles abound! Our second daughter is a junior in high school, already […]
I love the quiet of the mornings when everyone else is off to school and work, and I get to sit down for some quiet reflection. Last night we got a dusting of snow. Now as the sun dances across the shimmering surfaces, I watch as the snow melts off the mailbox, first in drips, […]
When I fell and broke my wrist in January, I very good friend of mine gave me an amazing gift. It was a subscription to Philosopher’s Notes by Brian Johnson. Brian has read all kinds of classic business, psychology and self help books and has written 6 page summaries and recorded 20 minute MP3s on […]
I am not sure whatever made me think that what I post to a blog needs to be a polished piece that is edited several times over before I can post it. Isn’t a blog by nature just a stream of consciousness, a group of thoughts on a certain issue? I don’t think there are […]
I just celebrated my birthday on Saturday. I was touched by one of the cards I received in the mail. It said,”May this next year of your life be as good for you as you are to everyone else.” I think it struck me because the whole first part of this year, with my broken […]
The following conversation is between me, the adult, and my inner child Jannie. I began writing a conversation with my right hand, and my left hand wrote the answer. Although this is not the starting point of our conversation, it seems right to post it first. ME: I have been listening to a meditation on […]
“In teaching hundreds of people to write with both hands, I’ve observed over and over that writing done with the other hand often expresses the disowned and oppressed parts of the self. With profound simplicity the other hand speaks for the powerless, weak, subordinate aspect of the personality… It is easier to express feelings by […]
