Open Door, New Path
If you’ve watched the reality TV show Intervention, you know there comes that crucial moment in each story told when the addict must decide—will they get help or not? Usually, it seems, they do. Every now and then, they refuse. As I write today, I am thinking of someone I care about standing at just such a crossroads. Within the next 24 hours this person is in a place where simply saying “yes” could mean the difference between life and death. We are hopeful, but also doubtful. Partly, it is because this...
Read MoreEpic Road Trip
It was the first round of Integrated Imagery training at the A.R.E in Virginia Beach and I found myself seated in a room with thirty strangers who almost all looked so familiar to me. The program had us jumping right into the experience and so by day two we were already pairing up, one being the guide and one being what our instructor, Dr. John Amoroso, called the traveler. I believe the intention I set in one of those first regressions was to understand what I am here to learn. I found myself as a man wearing a...
Read MoreLiving with Uncertainty, or At Peace in the Chaos
I had oral surgery yesterday. It involved one of my favorite teeth, the front one. Right there as a main feature of my smile. My own body is attacking the root, and so there is only a small portion of the original left now. The rest was reinforced today with whatever the latest material is that they use to simulate a tooth, and the doctor advised I not spend any more money on that tooth for cosmetic retouching until it is certain I’ll get to keep it. I looked up teeth/root canal in Louise Hays’ handy...
Read MoreRed-Tailed Hawk
November and December were challenging months in our household. Perhaps it was simply Mercury in retrograde, maybe the effects of long-term holiday sugar over-dosing, or whatever, but words were exchanged. Looks, too. And then, as it always does for us, it passed, like a bad cold, and harmony has been restored. It’s nice to be on the same team again. Right towards the end of this time of disturbance, husband Keith and I were heading into town together. We’d just gotten to the stop sign about a half...
Read MoreNew Year’s Resolution?
It’s that time of the year when the self-help writers tackle the topic of New Year’s Resolutions. How to make them and keep them. A couple of decades back someone thought of something new to add and wrote about the value of NOT making a resolution. claiming that making the resolution was a setup for failure. I suppose I fall into the camp of not making resolution, not so much out of a worry about failure, but rather, it’s a safe way to be a nonconformist, and for all my mild-mannered sweetness, there is a...
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