The Journey

“To the unconscious mind, ‘real life action’ and and ‘conscious intentional ritual’ are the same thing!” –Your Spacious Self If you think of dreams as the way [...]

I am fascinated by the world of social media and social networking. I love the implications of “tribes” finding each other and connecting around common interests. I love writing too, [...]

“Change happens slowly, then all at once.” – Jay W. Vogt Thanks to Mother Nature and major flooding in our area, we got a head start clearing the junk in our basement this year. Not [...]

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” – Anne Lamott It’s springtime: A return to my [...]

What would happen if you sat in a circle with a few people and together you took a minute to tune into a person or a thing with what I call “spacious detachment”? You could be tuning into antique [...]

Our beloved refrigerator leaves us today. I can hear her humming away in the other room – as she has for 25 years – oblivious to her fate. It’s like we’re putting her down. We bought [...]

One of my favorite out-of-the box thinkers and bloggers, Seth Godin, wrote this: You Rock This is deceptive. You don’t rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, [...]

As my daughter prepared to leave home for college for the first time last fall, I wrote a post a called “Packing: How Much Stuff is Too Much.” I thought my “bottom line” [...]

At the risk of sounding a bit like one of those late night infomercials, I have to say there’s more! This is a follow-up to a post I wrote  a month back entitled “No Home No [...]

“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” –Anais Nin In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? [...]