Minding your mind means paying attention to what you are thinking and also recognizing when your mind is in charge rather than you! We often find ourselves thinking things that are not in our best interest, repeatedly thinking the same thing as if worrying about it or obsessing about it affects the outcome. The underlying […]
I was thinking about perspective on the ride home from the Cubs game tonight. We took a bus to remote parking and I observed two sets of women talking on the bus. One set of friends were complaining about the length of the ride, the number of times we had to stop at stop signs, […]
Yesterday I spent the day with my husband and sons at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival. It was eleven hours of non-stop music on a beautiful summer day in Chicago! There were many things that struck me, separate from the brilliant guitarists and all ’round fun atmosphere. It was interesting to see Eric Clapton, Buddy […]
I noticed an increase in my Aliveness Energy today and realized that I had been “hanging out” in my Truth Energy for awhile. That means I have been analyzing things and thinking about them rather than getting movement by starting something. People with Aliveness Energy get movement by getting starts, it doesn’t mater what the […]
Several years ago I read an article about nested poems and found that this form suits me. It allows me to have a journey with each poem, not knowing how it is going to end. I love the “aha’s” that I discover as the poem unfolds. The poem becomes a meditation and a discovery. I […]
Today is our 37th anniversary and yesterday John and I took the day off and spent the day in the city along the lakefront. (we couldn’t synch up our schedules for today, and – it was sunny and 90 yesterday and rainy, rainy, rainy today – so it all turned out perfectly). We started our […]
