When love fills your heart
Tuesday, 04 February 2014
There are more songs written about love than about any other topic, love moves us emotionally and spiritually. Love also inspires our mind. Additionally, love prompts us to take our next breath or to wish we didn’t have to. When love fills your heart and it is healthy, the world is open to you and
The K Factor
Tuesday, 07 January 2014
Where K = Kindness, and the factors are the things that lead to it.
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The start of a new season
Sunday, 01 December 2013
This is the opening of a new month, on the heels of Thanksgiving and the beginning of new holidays where everyone is in a flurry and feeling joyous and also terrified about the stress of it all. Not to stress — relax, breathe, be happy, put a smile on your face until it makes you
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The break of day
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
I love to arise while it is still dark outside because I like the experience of watching a new day begin. This photo is from my 3rd floor, looking eastward. Over the rooftops and through the trees, I see the remains of the dark of night as it slips away and then slowly there is
The storms of autumn
Monday, 18 November 2013
The season is upon us, this time of the year we know as autumn. In the Midwestern portion of the country, we have had the annual glory of awesome colors blessing our eyes, blended with the warmth of the sun that shines and makes all those colors dance. My focus is on the beauty and
The body responds to tension
Friday, 11 October 2013
When you investigate the literature about stress, you will read about how there is good and not so good stress but that life itself has stress, it is a natural. The changing environment, even if we love the seasons in the Midwestern region in the U.S., show clearly that those changes are still stressful and
Building your inner strength
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Each and every day we are presented with challenges. The quality of our life is not contingent upon what comes to us but it is based upon how we handle what we are dealt to deal with. Stop and think about what you have the ability to do — you have a strong mind, you
Help, I have fallen…
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Famous lines from a commercial that most of us have heard. Right? The strangeness of it is that we have been falling down our entire life — we began as toddlers, it is something we have learned to manage so that we don’t get hurt. However, as we move through the decades of our life,
When you think your life is over….
Friday, 16 August 2013
Life is full of surprises and yet I am never surprised at how people behave when they think their life is really over. When someone is coming to a close on this life experience, they talk about many of the same things and yet the focus is singular — I WANT MORE TIME. I
What we come to know and believe
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
A friend asked me to join her at a concert in a small little venue this past weekend. Sure. I went. We had a nice dinner and then walked next door to hear a folk singer — Buddy Mondlock. Really? Yea, www.buddymondlock.com Handsome man, sweet voice. On stage with two guys he knows well, one
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