Today was a really great day. It started off with Breakfast With the Authors at the Hyannis Yacht Club. Just driving there I was elated with just being alive and living on Cape Cod. Elin Hilderbrand, author of my favorite beach reads, was one of the speakers. Hearing her journey was fun and inspiring. If . . . → Read More: Journey’s Ending
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It surprised me when I heard my quote of the day on a toothpaste commercial. “Life opens up when you do.” Outside of the dental connotation, this quote really held some meaning for me this week. For months now, I have been working hard spiritually and emotionally looking inward, learning, growing, and changing profoundly. . . . → Read More: Life Opens Up When You Do Recently a friend of mine wrote a blog entitled “Patience Vs Perseverance”. In it she said she couldn’t ever remember a time in her life when she just sat and waited for something to happen. She’s always been one to “go out and make her own luck”, as the saying goes. Well, after I read . . . → Read More: Perseverance IS Patience In yoga all I hear is “the breath” is everything. Well, yes, I know I need to breathe to keep my heart beating and stay alive, but the instructors say Prana is the breath – the life force, intimating something more – there is a force greater than the physical that must be attended to . . . → Read More: Ahhh… Prana…Now I Get it! I spend a lot of my days walking the Cape Cod shoreline. Everyday the water’s surface is decidedly different. Some days the water is gray-blue with barely a wave – just small ripples. Other days the water is dark green riddled with whitecaps and large pounding waves. In a reading today, by Mark Nepo, it . . . → Read More: The Bottom of the Sea “peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART. “ ~ unknown That was a quote I used to keep prominently displayed on top of my computer in . . . → Read More: Road to Peace Compassion can easily go two ways. You can completely open yourself up to others, take on their anxieties and pain and lose yourself in the process. Or, you can stay closed up and cut them off to preserve your sense of self. I have been to both schools. Through the course of this education, I . . . → Read More: Inhale/Exhale Sometimes we just don’t know where to turn. Sometimes there is no path to follow. Sometimes there really are no words to say. I had that kind of day yesterday, and could not write in this blog no matter what I tried. It was not like I didn’t have time, I did. It was not . . . → Read More: Losing Our Way Last week on the beach I looked down beside my chair and there sat the most perfect heart shaped stone I’d ever seen. It was tiny, which made it perfect touch-stone size. It also has a slight indentation on one side that perfectly fits my thumb. I like to think of the indentation as the . . . → Read More: Heart of Stone…Literally In my readings today I came across something about fear that helps me remember that it is only something that exists in my mind. FEAR stands for: False Expectation Appearing Real Many times I waste my days and a whole lot of nights gripped in fear, worrying about that which hasn’t happened yet, or may . . . → Read More: A Little Something About Fear |
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