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Tis the Season

Tis the season I have always been a BIG fan of Thanksgiving. While growing up, if someone we knew didn’t have somewhere to go, they came to our house to sit at our table, and to be welcomed into a home. Sometimes our little dining room looked more like…

Witchcraft

Our words are spells…                                      On Monday morning, I sat down with a cup of coffee in hand and sent a voice memo to a group of sister friends; a short debrief on how I’ve been feeling. Is “flailing” a feeling? Because flailing is how I have been feeling….

Shut down. Show up.

Woof… #realtalk…Yesterday was a really hard day. And when I say day, I mean that by 9:30am it felt like 9:30pm, and I was done. Done like I was ready to put on my jammies, curl up with a whiskey, some bad TV and call it by 10am. This…

Listening

Musings✨ Self-Reflection.            Meditation. Observation. Sitting with one’s self. Doing the work. Dismantling our default modes. Self Reflection is a component of meditation. So much of the time, the thoughts about meditation are you sit down, close your eyes, and poof – don’t think a thing. This is why some folks,…

Burn, Baby Burn

Musings✨ Use your anger for good. Anger to people is like gas to the automobile – it fuels you to move forward and get to a better place. Without it, we would not be motivated to rise to a challenge. It is an energy that compels us to…

It’s Oh so Quiet

Musings ✨ The only way out is IN   Last year a teacher of mine said, “Listen twice as much as you respond, and if what you are going to say is not an improvement on silence don’t say it.” Responding is our knee jerk reaction; a need to fill…

Let it flow to let it go

Musings ✨ Let go and let god.So many thoughts. So. many. thoughts. On Wednesday, my internet connection went out 20 minutes into my zoom with love class. A class where I was speaking about water- water reminding us to let go, to change, to rearrange, to feel, and…

Growing Slowly

Musings ✨ “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” Plato  Down the street from my house is a little community garden; Mama Dee’s is her name. I share a “bed” with my friend Melly. This will be our second year of planting Kale, Swiss…

Standing Still

Musings✨ “Stillness is the altar of the spirit.” Paramahansa Yogananda  In one quick swoop, the world, as we knew it-ended. Stopped. Shut down. Halt. Don’t go there. After a rambling monologue lived a giant period- end of scene. Shelter in place. Stay in place. Don’t move. Don’t go outside….

Looney Tunes

Musings✨ “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”                    ~Pema Chodron  Hey Sis,             Do you remember Wiley Coyote? Running as fast as he could off the edge of a cliff. Ahhhh. Pow. Boom. Splat.  Again, and again, and again. Ahhhh. Pow. Boom. Splat.  Again,…