Waiting For A Guide
We all have a need for the support and guidance of others to reach our goals. This is especially true when one is considering making a big change in one’s life, perhaps a life change to realize a buried dream.
The Power of Listening
The Power of Listening, to others, to ourselves, to what is around us, to what is inside us, or even to silence.
Goals versus Expectations How are these different?
When one is considering making changes in one’s life, small or big ones, it becomes critical to know the difference between realistic goals and expectations in order to avoid the pitfall of thinking they are one and the same.
Remembering the First Call of a Buried Dream
As I walked, a verse of the poem, Sea Fever, by John Masefield popped up in my mind.
“I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.”
Barriers Can Be Opportunities
When it seems your path is blocked, is it time to give up or change direction?
Contrasts of The Moments Give Us Understanding
If every moment were just like this, then how would we know to identify it as tranquility?
Seeking The Invisible
Seeing with the eyes can, at best, give only a glimpse of life happening all around us. Invisibility in nature provides protection for living and nonliving things. Do we humans choose invisibility at times, perhaps burying dreams we had wanted to pursue in the past? Are we self-protecting or self-limiting when we do ?
A Path Over Stepping Stones
The value of previous experience and the moment you finally reach a stable stone.
The Search For Who We Really Are
“Who are we really?” Is this the question, the key question for each of us?
It’s All About Connecting the Dots. But Where are the Dots?
Has the experience of the pandemic helped you to identify a strong need for connection? What and where are the dots you can see to connect in your life?
Competition for Resources – Maintaining a Sense of Humour
As I struggled with the ant invasion I also struggled with my values about interdependence, ecosystem maintenance, and my right to kill while defending myself.
Changing Our Position Can Change Our Perspective
How we “see” things can limit our vision of our path forward. Sometimes even changing position physically can change perspective.
Nature Knows to Clean Enough Space to Let in the New
The beach today is clean and the ocean smooth as glass. The ocean is offering up its stillness in readiness for the new waves and the tide that will return.
My World Has Been Weary Waiting for The Sun to Return
For days I have wakened to the sound of down pouring rain, bad news for my exercise routine. My meditative walk has been out of the question, and as a result I have been missing its therapeutic calming effect. But today the sun has come back to cheer the world and me.
A Gift Today
A beautiful panorama of ocean and sky greets my eyes. I see a fisherman, an older man, fishing in the traditional way with a net he throws. It is quite beautiful to watch; the movements are like a ballet.
A “Hoodie” Day
The sky is overcast and the huge waves I see in the distance will come crashing onto the beach. A couple of motorcycle taxis pass me and the drivers are wearing their hooded sweatshirts; they feel cold. Having lived here for such a long time I feel the cold too.
Congratulate Yourself For Being “slow” !!!!
Sometimes being “slow” can be a valuable characteristic. Being “slow” can make you a better decision maker, and promote creativity.
Sometimes A Most Perfect Thing Is Only Seen By Accident
The rushing, the stress, the busy-ness of our modern lives cheats us of the most significant awareness of our surroundings, our relationships.
Is It Time To Dig Up That Buried Dream?
At some point in our lives all of us had high hopes of something very different than what life presented us with, a story we wrote but tucked away when we were very young perhaps. And then one day the buried dream starts to haunt us once more and this time with an insistence we cannot ignore.
A Slightly Different Twist to The Practice of Gratitude
A familiar topic these days is the practice of gratitude. Feeling thankful for people and events in our lives and giving voice to those feelings can enhance our well-being. If we look around us there may be surprising benefits to expressing gratitude for inanimate objects.