There is nothing in this world harder than letting go. Right now I am watching a lot of people having trouble with letting go, and I am having trouble letting go, too. Letting Go of Mom I watch my mother, who has been in the process of letting go for the last 5 years, starting …
Do you wake up some mornings, fully primed? Where your brain is already fully in thought about something? I'm not sure what started me this morning. I had been talking last night about all the people in my life - my sister, my sister-in-law, friends, the leader of my Toastmasters chapter, colleagues, random people I …
My baby sister turns 50 this year. I’ve always looked out for her, big-sistered her, cherished her. And this year, she turns 50 and I have to reluctantly admit to myself that she is no longer a baby. She has a job of responsibility, including a promotion – up two grades – that she earned …
This morning, I selected a guided meditation on gratitude from the meditation app that I use. I wasn’t looking for a gratitude meditation, I was looking for a Bodhisattva meditation but this was the closest I could find. At first, I was put off by the style of the recording. It felt overproduced, with that …
I woke up this morning with that silly Oompa Loompa song in my head. The one that keeps asking, "What do you do with a child that's a brat?" And what do you do? That, and the memory of my favorite aunt. She has always been my favorite aunt, as far back as I could …
