I arrived in Atlanta in blazing trail time and got here just long enough to circle 285 enough times to make me so very happy I live in a city where I never have to get on the freeway if I don’t want to. Good lord! The first thing I noticed when I crossed the Georgia border were the trees, multicolored, multi species, wonderful beautiful trees. Then I noticed the freeway. Then I went to…
I’m leaving this morning on a much needed road trip – there will be family, friends and Madonna in the midst. I’m leaving the LaLa and my loved ones here along with a guest from Spain to watch over things and keep the home fires burning bright. Last night, I went to the Steiner Study Group to talk about Rudolf Steiner’s Education as a Force for Social Change. We covered his first two lectures that…
Someone suggested I meet some of my peers – women over 50 who have young children. And another suggested I find a support group for those who have Hashimoto’s. Another suggested that auto-immune diseases are going around the neighborhood and perhaps there is more than just a coincidence. The truth is that it would be hard to find someone like me, a 53 year old with a 3 year old, who has Hashimoto’s Disease and…
Yoga Sutra 2.39 Aparigraha Sthairye Janmakathamta Sambodhah “When you are not looking for something that is outside of yourself, you can transcend time. You’re not afraid of the future. The past, present, and future is the same. If you see yourself as a victim of something in your past, you are attached to your past story. Let go of it and begin to transform, becoming steadfast in yourself.”– Anand Aparigraha means greed or hoarding. So…
I love this word of the day which means warm friendliness; comfortableness; coziness. and this THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The sense of wishing to be known only for what one really is is like putting on an old, easy, comfortable garment. You are no longer afraid of anybody or anything. You say to yourself, ‘Here I am — just so ugly, dull, poor, beautiful, rich, interesting, amusing, ridiculous — take me or leave me.’ And how…
My dear friend, Susie, in Boston recommended WILD by Cheryl Strayed, which I read in a fever since I’m actually trying to finish up two books about race and kids, and another book published by Lavender Ink, and I couldn’t put it down. I changed my meds a few days ago and that has me a little feverish, a little antsy, a little out of my mind. Several times I closed the book and was…
In 2007 and possibly before, I began developing Hashimoto’s Disease, which is not uncommon in women, but because the period of 2004 to 2011 was seven years of undue stress, my condition was amplified and all of my hair fell out and my energy level plummeted to zero. To learn more about the thyroid and how it is the master regulator of your entire body, watch this slide show. My blood test last week revealed…
I don’t know why Monday, which is the start of the week, is always so disruptive. No matter how you line it up, Monday always decides for you how it is going to go. And so it was that this morning’s early walk with the dogs was hijacked by rain, and exercise time in between appointments collapsed into a disappearing interstitial. The grayness of a gray day is made grayer by being a grey Monday.…
In deciding what to leave in and what to leave out, sometimes people forget that there is a whole slew of things we just don’t know. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable still exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the…
The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D.H. Lawrence The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate; he finds a female, they show no haste they wait for the sympathy in their vast shy hearts slowly, slowly to rouse as they loiter along the river-beds and drink and browse and dash in panic through the brake of forest with the herd, and sleep in massive silence, and wake together, without a word. So…