When my daughter was little, maybe three or four, she made up a song about me with the lyrics, “Mommy wears her leopard suit, leopard suit, leopard suit…” She’s always had a flair for the dramatic, and I’ve always loved a good leopard print.
Happy New Year, hope I’m not too late! Just kidding, I’m referring to Lunar New Year today which is celebrated by many different Asian cultures.
Aquarius season is underway, and I’m leaning into this air sign’s archetype of the reformer, the humanitarian, the freedom-loving nonconformist who is concerned about the good of the whole.
Years ago, I fell in love with the djembe drum, a hand drum that originated in West Africa.
Last weekend, I watched the Netflix movie, “Don’t Look Up,” a satire about America’s response to a comet on a path to destroy the earth. It’s an allegory for climate change that many critics have panned. I loved it.
A few years back, a friend of mine co-created the Tarot Life Card deck that employs a simple numerical system using your birthdate to identify your personal life Tarot card. The deck also offers a card for each year of your life. For 2022, mine is the Wheel of Fortune. Essentially, the Wheel of Fortune card advises me to expect the unexpected and to face whatever that is head-on. Whether I’m showered with good fortune or struggling with adversity, it behooves me to stay in the center of the wheel and connected to my heart. My first reaction to this […]
Today is Winter Solstice, the day of the year with the most hours of darkness and first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Translated from Latin, solstice means “sun stand still” because at Solstice time, the sun’s path across the sky appears to freeze. This perfectly reflects how I’ve been feeling as well as what nature mirrors for us. I crave rest. I don’t want to be doing all the things I’m doing. I don’t really even want to think. I want to be still like the sun, nestle in the comfort of darkness, and just be. Maybe you […]
When I was a teenager and young adult, I lived in West Texas, a part of Tornado Alley. Every late spring to early summer, I lived in constant dread of the tragedy that ripped through the South and Midwest last week. Several times I witnessed the tell-tale green sky and even a funnel cloud once, but gratefully, I never experienced the devastation of an actual tornado. My heart aches for all who have. That witness role feels important to me at the moment. As I enter the darkness of winter, and heed nature’s call to go inward, I’m noticing some […]
I’ve been feeling a bit raw lately. Worry has taken over. I won’t go into detail here because others’ privacy is at stake. But I will say that it has crossed my mind that the gurus reported to have attained inner peace must not have had children. Peace is a practice, and we have to keep at it. And children or not, we all have things we worry about. The break-neck pace of world disasters constantly running in the background like a software program is enough to make anyone anxious, not to mention our individual challenges. Staying centered takes work, […]
Last weekend, I was struggling to roll up a garden hose for storage when I thought of my dad. I remembered watching him so many times cuss and fight to try to force his hose into a neat circle just like I was doing. I had to laugh. He was either delivering a message to me from the other side about a lesson he didn’t really learn while he was alive, or it was the Universe speaking. Either way, I got it. Relationships are like garden hoses. You can cuss and fight to try to shove them into the perfect […]
