Psychic Realm
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I woke up coughing and wheezing at 1:27am last Tuesday morning. I’d been in a deep sleep and could not recall any particular dreams or reason to awaken with such a severe asthma episode. My regular rescue inhaler helped but not for long. After a couple of days, I had to start using a maintenance…
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There is a “calm knowing” that I’d mentioned in a previous post and it’s what I’m experiencing now. Initially, I felt oddly calm after our voices and choices were suppressed via hatred. I didn’t think I was in shock. Then I wondered if it isn’t over yet and recounts will prove we are not doomed…
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Obviously, I took a break from blogging. I hadn’t planned to… I just followed my gut and my intuitive sense and stepped back for a little bit. I’m not even sure why. It’s not as if I had nothing to say. Perhaps it’s because vital conversations were occurring within myself, and introspection paves the way…
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Labor Day weekend always has been a major holiday for me because I taught high school English for many years. The start of the new school year began after Labor Day, but educators were obligated to attend events prior to the weekend. Thus, getting away for one last summer fling wasn’t in the cards. One…
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The sun is bright on this beautiful end of summer day, but I feel this photo accurately depicts the coldness that strives to live deep within some peoples’ hearts and souls. I’ve stopped any attempt to figure out why some people choose to cling to a toxic life preserver that surely will drown them and…
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We surely are being pushed and pulled in many directions in addition to the seesaw emotional landscape that greets us upon waking every day. How on earth do we keep our sanity, our peace, our hopefulness, or our love for others and even ourselves? Life is a challenge and a rollercoaster ride of ups and…
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we constantly wrestle with our identity and how our identity can shift when we’re alone versus in a group of any size or familiarity. Certainly, during these divisive times, we grapple with aloneness in our opinions, thoughts, perspectives, and stances. When we are perceived as “black sheep,”…
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Sometimes I wonder how I arrived in this place of acceptance and self-ownership so late in life. Besides feeling tremendous gratitude for landing on more solid ground, I realized the futility in beating myself up for the wouldas, couldas, shouldas that plague our lives, and which instill self-doubt, lack of fortitude, a denial of our…
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From a tranquil meditation spot alongside Salt Pond, I was treated to this natural view of three swans at rest and dining, floating and observing, seemingly in their own meditative spirit. Meditation has saved many of us from the crush of anxiety, depression, constant worry, sorrow, uncertainty, and pessimism. Surely, meditation saved me to a…
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No matter how many times we tell ourselves that we WON’T be triggered by persistently painful responses from others, dang nabbit!, we still often feel the painful sting. Sometimes the angry vitriol or sarcastic meanness that is hurled at our beliefs annoys us like an unseen mosquito we can’t swat because we can’t see it…
The Healing Connection of Life and Death 