What makes your heart sing, your spirit soar? Sometimes we spend a great deal of time reviewing our faults and very little time recognizing what makes our heart soar. Today is the day to look at what makes your heart sing! Over twenty years ago I took a class and one of the assignments was […]
Where are you awake in your life?
The question of where are you awake in your life implies that there are places where you are asleep in your life. The trick is to recognize when you have stopped being awake in your daily life and then fully engaging again. Many people who don’t like their jobs, or their school, or their relationship […]
Curiosity
I have been thinking about one of the differences between children and adults – curiosity. I think children have an innate curiosity about things. They like to take things apart, put them back together, taste them, pinch them, look at them from different angles, and sometimes put them in their ears or noses to see […]
What does “I am” mean to you?
I once did a word web with “not good enough” in the center. Check out the blog post from April 2, 2010 for a description of word webs if you haven’t done one before. From that word web I came to the realization that “I am” is the opposite of “not good enough” rather than “good enough” […]
Nested Poem – It is a Glorious Day Today
I haven’t written a nested poem in awhile and one came to me today as I sat at the Arboretum. One of my writing partners, Ricky, has been encouraging me for years to use “I” instead of “we” in poems. Today as I wrote this I found myself going back and forth between I and […]
What Do You Appreciate About Yourself?
I think it’s easier for people to say what’s wrong with them than to say what they appreciate. Let’s look at it in three different ways: Appreciation of things Appreciation of others Appreciation of self I can have appreciation for the beauty in nature, a mountain, my grandmother’s roses, the smell of lavender or rosemary, […]