Ready, willing and able is an old cliché that arose in our collective consciousness in the early 19th century. It implies that you have to be eager and fully prepared before moving into or doing something. For the smaller things in life, this may be apropos. To eat or...
What do you do when an open space really isn’t open? This was a quandary I recently faced at one of my favorite places on a trip back from Mt. Shasta. In the lawn area of a local hotel is a beautiful labyrinth, one that I've walked each time I visit. I stopped by a...
There’s a lot of noise right now. And a lot of uncertainty. So much so, that it’s driving us to try to turn off the world. Turn off FB. Turn off the news. But when we turn off the physical noise of FB and the news, what we have left to look at is ourselves. So, we...
Across the way from where I live is a beautiful river. Many days I walk along it for inspiration or to just be with nature. A few days ago, the thought came to me, “Are we torturing ourselves by delaying the obvious?” Wow! We as humans don’t like change. Sometimes...
There can be two people standing in a room and at least three truths. Your truth, their truth, and the truth between the two of you. All three are right. It’s a beautiful and messy entanglement. The unfortunate thing in society today is, we're made to feel that if...
Is there someone you’ve been thinking about but haven’t reached out to? We’ve been taught to be logical, to think logically, make decisions from logic. But when we stay in our heads, it doesn’t change or shift anything. The holidays can heighten our feelings of...
We’re deep in the middle of the holiday season. You may be thinking about someone you haven’t seen or talked with in a while, wanting things to be different between the two of you. You may want to end something but are waiting for the other person to make the first...