I heard a question posed the other day, “What if you only made choices that were loving and kind to you?” That got me thinking about the many choices we make in a day, week, month, or year and how many of those choices are really loving and kind to ourselves? We live in such […]
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Let’s Do a Happy Dance
It rained last night – thunder, lightning and pouring rain, kind of rain! That warrants a happy dance because we are in the midst of a drought here in Chicago. I can’t remember the last day we had rain for more than a 5 minute stretch. It’s really the little things in life that bring […]
Noticing my judgments and an aha
I am sitting at Caribou doing some planning and writing. I find it very energizing sitting among other people. Now, here comes the judgment part. I am sitting near a group of retired men who have talked about so many random topics that it almost makes my head spin. They have now spent half an hour […]
Joy and Enjoy!
I saw a hummingbird taking a sip from the flowers on my deck the other day and it made me smile. First off, a few years ago I gave up planting flowers in my yard – I just wasn’t very successful. Part of it is lack of a green thumb and part of it is […]
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, […]