Sunday sustenance
We woke late. I made pancakes. Read the New York Times on the front porch. Neighbors stopped to visit and sit for a spell.
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Author: Rachel
Rachel Dangermond is an impresario and daughter of the revolution.
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Shhh, let the story unfold…
Imagine someone is telling you this grand, epic story, and you keep impatiently asking but what happened next or how did it end? Yesterday, we started with toddler apocalypse, out of a good morning came chaos trying to get ready to go to another toddler’s birthday party, I DON’T WANT TO through streams of tears and anguished cries, one hour of this and both of us saw our nerves fray into thin whispery strands barely…
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A little coaching gets you back in the game
My horoscope today said that I have a great team of friends who are here to support me, after all it said, that is what friends are the people who don’t judge you but rather they bring out the best in you. So when a colleague/friend decided to go back to divinity school and hang out his shingle as a life coach, I knew when we were catching up that it was more than just…
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Detox ReTox
I’ve spent the week on Detox to come back down to earth. Mornings have been a blender with low fat yogurt, chia seeds, flax seeds, blueberries and strawberries, a dash of local honey, and some aloe juice. Lunch has been vegetarian mainly a mix of edamame, corn, red onion and red pepper tossed with rice vinegar with a splash of sesame oil, broccoli and carrots steamed tossed with lemon juice and flax seed oil, and…
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A little sunshine
The week was bookended by Labor Day on Monday and a summary from my new Life Coach on Friday and that about sums up a week that was pretty damn informative. In the end, I figured out a lot of things (with help), but what I wasn’t prepared for was to have the week capped by Tin picking up his ukelele and busting into song – how appropriate it would be You Are My Sunshine,…
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I should’a, could’a, would’a
So it’s early and there is much to do today but let’s start with a Joseph Campbell quote just to kick off a true TGIF – below is my favorite of all quotes by Campbell because it is the greatest struggle that I’ve encountered to let go on what I had planned to happen versus what is happening in my life. It’s not that I am not known for switching gears when I need to…
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A walk in the park
We’re getting up earlier around this household because the little prince gets up an hour and a half earlier and that means, no rest for the weary. So I was traipsing through the park while it was still dark this morning – do you know that City Park in New Orleans is the fifth largest park in the U.S. and one of the safest? – and I was looking around at all the moss and…
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Hump day or Heffalump day
On the drive to school this morning, Tin and I were listening to an audio book of Winnie the Pooh stories and we landed on the one about the heffalump trap. This is a day that has circumnavigated the whole mental globe, it started off with me trying to just be and beating myself up for not being able to – I had awakened at 3 am with ruminating thoughts of did I do this…
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Other ways of knowing
I’ve always been attracted to the cerebral types, the ones who seem to be able to retain vast knowledge and pull it all together into a cogent thought, but honestly I’m on another educational path these days. That of trying to simply be. This may sound easy enough but it’s hard. In order to be you have to believe in a few tenets such as 1) you are worthy of simply being and don’t have…