Each day brings a forth a new thought, subject, theme in our lives. Waking up can be blissful and at other times rather difficult depending on your current situation. Yesterday, I wanted to write all about gratitude and how it promotes a feeling of joy and happiness.  Waking up every day to simply saying thank you. It’s a nice way to start the day. But then I opened my book of poems on this day to “Honoring Grief” by Pixie Lighthorse. I have never been able to read this in class because it is

It’s been a long five months of being home and yet it is comforting to have a safe, loving home to live in. These past few months have been thought provoking for me in so many ways, as I am sure they have been for you. So many disappointments and losses and yet we have learned to cope and survive with so much less in our lives. Perhaps you have found your way home to yourself in a very deep and healing way. If not, come with me on this journey called Life.

Home is where is the heart is! We

Be Here Now is a square purple book published in 1971. Somehow during my early school days, I got a copy of it in my search for what life is about and for the meaning of it all.  All these years later, I finally get it. I get what “be here now” meant—to me anyway.

Being here now, in whatever you’re doing or not doing, makes what you’re doing or not doing so much more stable, so much more meaningful, so much more peaceful. For example, if you show up for a yoga class because you want to take

The other morning a hummingbird came near. I was sitting outside at a table in the center of which is a plant with clusters of yellow and white flowers. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of something coming near, then in full view and going toward the flower, a hummingbird blur. It came and went quickly.

In the afternoon, I was sitting in the same place and less than about 15 inches away from my face to the yellow and white flowers came the hummingbird again with its soft green

 Rumi the medieval poet wrote, “What you seek is seeking you.” I think of this as I sit each morning. What is it I would like to embody today? What is my intention as I walk through my day? How can I be a vessel of blessing for someone else who may be struggling? Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed with the ever-increasing demands of our jobs, family and life. We are living through an unprecedented time of great suffering with the pandemic and all the uncertainty. Every day a new piece of news

Our heart is at the center of our being human. In the heart is where our deepest thoughts, intuitions, emotions and decisions find their source. We often fail to know our hidden centers and so we live and die without knowing who we really are. Have you ever looked into the mirror and asked yourself, “who am I?” 

You are not the body, you are not your mind, you are not your title such as wife, husband, mother, father, sister, brother, friend, etc.  You are so much more. This past weekend, I