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 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 MoreMr. Ebeneezer Scrooge
Every year a new version of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” comes out in a movie or TV show, and I love the story, so I enjoy them all, but last night my favorite version was on TMC. It’s a musical version with Albert Finney. For years before the advent of cable TV, I had the song “Thank you very much, thank you very much. That’s the nicest thing that anyone’s ever done for me…” playing randomly through my thoughts when something kind was done and I wasn’t sure of it’s origin. Well,...
Read More“I Don’t Think I Can Be Hypnotized.”
We live our life in a trance state. To my way of thinking, becoming hypnotized is in some ways more like finally waking up. For those who feel they can’t experience hypnosis, it is really a lack of willingness, a fear of losing control. We go into trance when we read a book, watch TV. Advertising has trance inducing jingles, repetitions and suggestions that make us hungry. Why else would we continue to buy food that if we slow down enough when eating it, we realize it tastes pretty disappointing compared...
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