Empowering You to Actualize Your Purposeful Potential
Every time there’s a choice to be made by the characters in the movie, The Piano, director Jane Campion has them select an unexpected direction or response. This is so refreshing. In most Hollywood movies things are so predicable that my interest wanes and I feel frustrated by the lack of imagination in what I’m […]
How do you begin your day? Because how you begin your day is how you live your life—it’s a microcosm of the macrocosm. How you begin your day sets the tone for how the rest of the day will go. How your days go, so goes your life. Is it popping out of bed at […]
As I stood inside the Redwood tree, I felt protected, nourished and safe. I felt the size, scope and strength of nature. I felt connected to something way bigger than my small self. I felt the power, wonder and majesty of a force beyond anything I’ve ever experienced before. Truly, the force of nature. We […]
He was given two months, but he went on to live for two more years. We were so grateful to have this time of love, caring and tenderness with him. For a thirteen-year-old cat, Quicksilver was middle aged, but for me who has had many twenty plus-year-old cats, it felt too young, too soon to […]
I love this time of year—it offers the opportunity to look back at our lives and acknowledge what went well this past year, and then look forward to what we would like to do or be different in the New Year. It is a chance to reset, to begin anew. To shed the old, worn […]
Have you ever noticed how often you say NO in your life, to your life? How often you reject what is currently showing up as— Not what you want Not how you envisioned it Nice, but not quite right in some way I don’t mean saying NO to other people—saying NO to other people is […]
I love this time of year—the flurry of the holidays is over, the year is ending, a new one is beginning, with all the possibilities a new beginning holds. It is a time between past and future, where the present is ripe with possibilities—a bridge to pause on and look at one’s life reflection. What […]
A few weeks ago a friend, neighbor and musical colleague died suddenly and unexpectedly on his way home from a fifty-mile bike ride. It has been so overwhelmingly sad and shocking that it has taken me until now to be able to write about it. Still, my mind keeps tricking me into thinking it is […]
