Posts from the ‘Wholehearted’ Category
“May I not become trapped, caught or entangled in false inner networks of negativity, resentment or destruction toward myself. May I treat myself as the nest of God….” John O’Donohue May I treat myself as the nest of God! What would that look like? The first thing that pops to my mind is the humility it would […]
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Winter Greeting: 2017 Winter has long been the season of reflection so, get cozy, pour yourself a cup of something and let’s chat. This year for the first time I started my decorating, shopping and gifting early. Ask my siblings; I am notoriously a last minute girl. Myers Briggs P through and through. But this […]
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As we stand at the gateway, a summer stretching out in front of us, this quote is particularly meaningful to me. Full quote: “Everyday when I awake, I am torn between saving the world and savoring it. It makes it hard to plan the day.” And that reminds me of another poem by David Whyte What […]
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This is truly the 64,000 question. Most of us engage the conversation we know how to have but often that is not the “real” conversation. The conversation that you don’t know how to have, is typically a “real” conversation, it’s the conversation you MUST have to move forward. Other questions that are related to […]
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Anthropologist and psychologist Mary Pipher gets credit for this exercise: These “I am from” poems are an identity exercise. They are poems that includes something about place, religion, and food that trace back to where/how you are “from.” I chose to do this for my birthday this year, in honor of my mother whom I […]
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