Choose Joy This week marks the beginning of Hanukah and Advent – both seasons of light and the heralding of joy. This has not been a year where a great deal of joy has been expressed, at least not in the media, movies or TV.  I have friends who have been indulging in...

From communicating to connecting I have been reflecting on how  many of my relationships rely on texting.  I admit I am not a great texter…meaning I kind of use one finger at a time and frequently have typos and auto-corrects that can change my meaning in a flash....

Flow Motion I am a product of the “make it happen” generation…if it is to be, its up to me. Somehow that phrase captured the notion of effort or force…and there is no doubt that when applied; stuff happens. I would often be exhausted and wonder why it wasn’t as...

Boundless Compassion The next few weeks will contain what I have come to realize as the needed prescription for bringing in the new – for revealing the Renaissance that wants to come forth from a time of swift change and crippling loss.  It is clear to me that relying...

Qualities of Transition – Part 1 “First you see it, then you believe it”…Wayne Dyer To move from transition to transcendence we need to have vision.  We need to move from the seen to the unseen…from what we must work with …to what the possibilities are in the...

From Transition to Transcendence There are transitions in life that we can label…empty nesting, retirement, marriage, child rearing to name a few; and I believe we think of them as temporary, as the next stage follows quickly after an event.  Then I think there are...

The energy of Inventiveness A few months ago I wrote about the coming of a Renaissance…that historically that is what follows a period of darkness including the Plague and other pandemic like activities.  Some wonderfully curious woman in Italy decided to study that...

Love On Every Breath In my Twenties I was inspired by many global leaders…from the Kennedy legacy to Dr. King to Oprah- a diverse group to say the least.  I thought at the time that no greater motivation could infuse me than to change the world. And it did indeed seem...

Fear and It will Appear It is often a challenge to discern what is at the very foundation of things happening in our personal worlds and in our world at large.  It has looked to me from time to time as complicated issues and complicated motivations and so- called...

Relax and Release One of my primary teachers recently said that 80% of our spiritual journey is Letting Go…he didn’t say what the other 20% was but I imagined it to be acquiring…acquiring knowledge or practice -whether of meditation or yoga or chi gong.  That hit me...