Today was my last session with my life coach and here is my shout out to Danielle who helped me wrangle through the toughest year of my life and come out on the other side feeling passionate, confident, and brave and more like Rachel than I have ever been before. Yay!
This past Saturday was a year that I have been going to Danielle’s Zumba class and all I can say is thank god. Zumba has gotten me through losing my hair, selling my house, rearranging my life so completely different, and has propped me up until I got to today when my hair started growing back again. If I hadn’t been able to dance my way through this year, I seriously think I would have…
Today a friend looked at me very closely – we were looking at my wrinkles actually – because she owns Jake Aesthetics and is doing a peel on my face (results to be revealed very soon) – and she saw hair growing along the side of my head. Hair! She saw it! I feel it! Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there, hair,…
A friend told me about this book, Lean In, and wondered why it took her to tell me when it’s all over the wires – but I have to say in the little I’ve read about the book since she brought it to my attention I can only think that this book is a waste of the trees that were cut down to make it. And I will just sum up my reasons by this…
“The Invitation” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your…
I’ve been practicing my meditation each morning, and after meditation I can truly say that I see clearer, hear better, and feel more relaxed. I’ve been using an app – yes an app for meditation – called the Insight Timer. A friend walked by the other day and out of the blue, was admonishing me for wanting to build a house – “You can’t do this! You better not do that!” – and I smiled…
I got my lab results and for the first time in a year my thyroid levels have normalized. I can’t point to one thing that made that happened, but I can point to everything. I went through the last many hours in a seminar on unlearning racism, the end of which has left me emotionally depleted. Along the way, several new people stepped into my world, and each of them was bearing a gift. Tonight,…
Without a dog attached to my hip, I am not motivated to go out first thing for my daily constitutional and so today after being in front of the computer for much too long a period, I got myself up and went for a walk. And of course, the path is different because I’m on this side of the bayou, which still has me sort of turned around in the car. And my gateway to…
I have this memory, which I have recounted here, of living in a shotgun house during periods of transition, which is where I find myself again. Only, this time is different; I’m much more aware of the fact that I’m in transition, that right now all things are possible, and that this shotgun holds moments of unbridled joy that have yet to happen. So it is that I have positioned a chair just so in…
I liken the multiple losses I have experienced in the past year or so to a death, which would make the last year of posts almost like reciting Kaddish for me. Kaddish is the prayer that Jews say for their close loved ones for eleven months after they pass and then it becomes a one year anniversary event. This morning, before dawn, I met with the Zen master teacher for Dokusan* at MidCity Zen and…