Month: June 2020

Choosing freedom again & again

Choosing freedom again & again

All is peaceful at my house after last week’s COVID scare. My youngest daughter—the one I birthed who still lives at home—was exposed June 19 and began exhibiting some strange symptoms by the 21st. She tested negative, as did her father and I, yet symptoms have persisted on and off since then. Even if she does have COVID, she has not been terribly sick, yet fear in its many forms got the best of me last week. It first showed up as anger because I made a judgement that the people who exposed her acted carelessly. I was also angry […]

Rising up rooted

Rising up rooted

Many years ago while living in L.A., I experienced a fairly significant earthquake. Imagine being in the shower doing your thing and out of nowhere, the shower starts rocking back and forth. Unnerving to say the least!  I made it out of the shower to safety, turned on the TV news, and then the aftershocks started. Unexpected, unpredictable and unsettling. The ground, which I took for granted as being solid and dependable, shifted. It was out of my control, and the sensation kept repeating itself.  That’s sort of the way things are feeling now. Nearly every one of my energy healing […]

When we know better, we can do better

When we know better, we can do better

Last Sunday, I had a bit of a breakthrough in working with my “hot” horse, which in horsey lingo means a very spirited one who likes to go fast. I finally got the hang of loosening the reins rather than continually pulling on them to get him to slow down.  Those of you who are not into horses may be thinking, “What?! Aren’t you supposed to pull hard on the reins to get a running horse to slow down?” Not exactly. But I, like most people, rode that way for years because it was what I was taught as a […]

Grief, joy and the work ahead

Grief, joy and the work ahead

When I was 35 years old, my husband died, and I entered the most difficult period of my life. One dark day, amid the sadness, loneliness, anger, pain and emptiness, a tiny stream of light filtered into my heart. It came in the form of an elk. I’m fortunate to live in an area where elk are prevalent, yet to this day, every sighting–always unexpected–takes my breath away. That is exactly what happened that day so long ago, and I felt joy for the first time since my husband had passed. That one exquisitely simple moment marked the beginning of […]

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