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Wisdom in everyday life

  • The Irony

    Opened my email this morning to a letter requesting donations, I get this a lot due to my once being married to a multi-millionaire. It was funny because the organization doing the asking, was the one that already tried to wrap itself onto my financial house. These were the people ever ready with the sentence Read more

  • The Disappointment

    During the early years of my spiritual searching, I bumped into a plethora of cult like groups. So many of them were small ego driven cliques, where your participation was allowed as your ability to suspend belief, move common sense and keep your mouth shut. At first these groups so pleased that you can attend, Read more

  • I had the great privilege of spending the bulk of my early adult years in northern Minnesota. And let me say, after 30 some years I do believe these people may just have a cult love for winter. But it’s a true God believing place, because the cold will take the breath from your lungs. Read more

  • Are you kidding me…

    It’s funny when you think on our lives as one elongated story. Many chapters are the boring ones filled with mundane details outlining our struggles, and what happened along the way with the roster of people assigned to help and those who hurt. Also included are the other chapters containing the horror of your life Read more

  • I love to read. Back in the day of work, school and kids, it was the only form of escape I had. With the pressure of real life constantly pushing at me, the moment I picked up my book, I was another person living a different kind of life. The world spectrum was always at Read more

  • What now?

    Isn’t that the eternal question, what now? What do I do, now? We have gotten very used to setting our sights into the future and we keep putting stuff on our to do list. But only; after the kids are grown and moved out, then I’ll… or, As soon as they get over this I Read more

  • Life out of context

    So, in the category of what is going on, I say, life looks like a mystery bus tour. I’m seated on the bus in my part of the world looking out the window and who the hell knows where I am. Every day is different. One day I live in a rain forest and have Read more

  • It’s been awhile

    Why write, why share? Those words echoing like a mantra marching in this burned out teacher’s head. “It has been such a difficult period time”, she keeps telling herself, which is unbelievable as she has moved through so many other “cycles of difficult” times. Gut wrenching times. Down on your knees times. Pain melting your Read more

  • Glimpse of Thanksgiving Sun

    I saw the sun today. But, it was playing hooky they say. Yes, I know, but “I saw the sun today.” Right, its Thanksgiving day, of course, you saw the sun today. Oh but you mean far away, because didn’t you know, because, didn’t they say, You would never see the sun this day. The Read more

  • Solo travel

    Solo travel they say with a frown, how will you know what to do in each town? will you be brave and hit all the spots? or will you be scared and hide quite a lot? I have been traveling by myself, alone most days because a ring on your finger or a man in Read more