True Colors
I saw a post on Facebook this morning: "If someone shows you their true colors, don't try to repaint them." This lesson has long been with me. It has been at the core of many co-dependent and...
View ArticleWhat I Asked For
Making the rounds on Facebook today: "Everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for." Another one of those inscrutable statements that can be interpreted in various ways....
View ArticleThere’s No Place Like Home
It's Halloween as I am writing this. I just washed off the silver makeup, glitter and red lipstick that covered my face for a few hours when I was out and about tonight. My newly dyed hair is Manic...
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Light Filled Holiday
This morning, I saw a meme on a friend's Facebook page that expressed: LIKE if you plan to be politically incorrect by saying "Merry Christmas" this holiday season. My response to her was: "If I...
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Abby’s Light
When a light comes into the world, we hope that it will last indefinitely, knowing that eventually it will fade. When a child is born, a parent doesn't expect that his or her light will diminish...
View ArticleDon’t Step In It
Sometimes good rules for life show up as social media memes and this one that popped up recently has a few simple guidelines. Not sure of the source, or I would be glad to give the person credit. It...
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Letting It Be Easy
Difficult to imagine a time when I made things harder than they needed to be. Days filled with fret and worry like so much sewage run-off. Mind spinning ceaselessly with shoulda- woulda- coulda...
View ArticleLeap of Faith in the Face of Doubt
In the past few months, I have become increasingly aware of the power of spiritual practice to keep the rudder on my 'ship of dreams' guiding me steady on, so that I don't run it ashore. Just when I...
View ArticleThrough The Eyes of Love
Yesterday, my friend Joan made a comment on Facebook about a painful interaction with someone in her life. "I've been looking at myself through the eyes of someone who doesn't love me, but trying to...
View ArticleBe the Vortex
Yesterday, I was sitting in a black plastic chair at Meineke in Doylestown, waiting for my car to be given the thumbs up to be road worthy after a rough winter. Here in Eastern, PA, like many places...
View ArticleA Member of the Good Luck Club
This morning, The Muse woke me up at 5:30 and after writing this, I am likely to see if I can get a few more hours of shut-eye before leaping into the rest of my day. As usual, I peruse Facebook to see...
View ArticleOff the Boat to Bonkerville
I have wise friends. Two of them started a thread on Facebook that was a writing prompt which lead to this article: Loreen posed this prose: "Too much time planning this life when eternity waits....
View ArticleSmoking Mad
One of my longstanding pet peeves is smoking and the impact it has had on me and people close to me, as well as the planet in general. I can cite all kinds of reasons why it is problematic, from the...
View ArticleA Pampered Woman
Yesterday, I saw a meme on Facebook that showed a woman sitting up in bed, yelling out to no one in particular "Somebody pamper me!" and then in the next block, she realizes "Oh yeah. I forgot. I'm a...
View ArticleSleepless in Dublin
Earlier in my life, sleep was an experience I both cherished and avoided. As a little kid, I resisted naps, since I thought I would be missing out on fun. Throughout adulthood, I would often say that...
View ArticleWhy Do We Write What We Do?
A come clean. When recently reading an artist friend's post about not being responsible for how her art is viewed or perceived, it occurred to me that often I write with the intention of evoking...
View ArticleWaiting in the Wings
Every morning, we unfold a new 24 hour period, like a sheet fresh off the clothesline where it has been drying in a sweet breeze. We stretch it out and do our best not to let it drag in the dirt or...
View ArticleThe Trigger Is The Treasure
"The moment we have an expectation or require anything to make us feel whole and free we have committed it and ourselves to a form of bondage; and in our desire for freedom and liberation we have...
View ArticleEveryone Is On Loan To Us
In the dark days of late Fall into early Winter of 1998, I lived between worlds. Mostly, I walked, slept, eat, drank, cried and prayed in and around the ICU at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in...
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Hello, My Name is Doris: Movie Review
I like Sally Field....I really, really like her as a staple in my childhood when I grew up watching Gidget and The Flying Nun. Today, worlds apart from the beach setting of the first show and the...
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