Shut down. Show up.

Woof… #realtalk…Yesterday was a really hard day. And when I say day, I mean that by 9:30am it felt like 9:30pm, and I was done. Done like I was ready to put on my jammies, curl up with a whiskey, some bad TV and call it by 10am. This…

Listening

Musings✨ Self-Reflection.            Meditation. Observation. Sitting with one’s self. Doing the work. Dismantling our default modes. Self Reflection is a component of meditation. So much of the time, the thoughts about meditation are you sit down, close your eyes, and poof – don’t think a thing. This is why some folks,…

Burn, Baby Burn

Musings✨ Use your anger for good. Anger to people is like gas to the automobile – it fuels you to move forward and get to a better place. Without it, we would not be motivated to rise to a challenge. It is an energy that compels us to…

It’s Oh so Quiet

Musings ✨ The only way out is IN   Last year a teacher of mine said, “Listen twice as much as you respond, and if what you are going to say is not an improvement on silence don’t say it.” Responding is our knee jerk reaction; a need to fill…

Let it flow to let it go

Musings ✨ Let go and let god.So many thoughts. So. many. thoughts. On Wednesday, my internet connection went out 20 minutes into my zoom with love class. A class where I was speaking about water- water reminding us to let go, to change, to rearrange, to feel, and…

Growing Slowly

Musings ✨ “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” Plato  Down the street from my house is a little community garden; Mama Dee’s is her name. I share a “bed” with my friend Melly. This will be our second year of planting Kale, Swiss…

Standing Still

Musings✨ “Stillness is the altar of the spirit.” Paramahansa Yogananda  In one quick swoop, the world, as we knew it-ended. Stopped. Shut down. Halt. Don’t go there. After a rambling monologue lived a giant period- end of scene. Shelter in place. Stay in place. Don’t move. Don’t go outside….

Looney Tunes

Musings✨ “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.”                    ~Pema Chodron  Hey Sis,             Do you remember Wiley Coyote? Running as fast as he could off the edge of a cliff. Ahhhh. Pow. Boom. Splat.  Again, and again, and again. Ahhhh. Pow. Boom. Splat.  Again,…

Good Morning Ritual

Musings✨ This past week, I revisited my tools. It was a must. A non-negotiable. These tools I speak of- are the little things. And RN these little things are very much the BIG THINGS. For clarity. Make your bed. Shower.Sit in the Sun.Move your bones.Create something.Tidy up.Make yourself a delicious meal-…

When life gives you lemons

Musings✨ “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me.”~ Rainer Maria Rilke Many years ago, I lay in Savasana- heart in throat, sweat on skin, metaphorical death happening to every cell of me-  when I heard Rilke’s…