2012- The Year of Self Love

2012- The Year of Self Love

I love new cycles.  I enjoy bringing intention and attention to the endings and beginnings of things; it just feels holy to me to honor the passing of something old and celebrating the emergence of something new! With that in mind, I like to consider a theme for the...
Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

  After a somewhat challenging Thanksgiving, my son and I went out for Vietnamese, one of our favorites. Comfort food, for sure. There, a fortune cookie imparted wisdom that I desperately needed after the holiday mayhem. Who knew that a fortune cookie could frame...
9 Days in the Desert-the Need for Retreat

9 Days in the Desert-the Need for Retreat

I just returned last week from a 9 day spiritual retreat and vision quest in New Mexico, where my family spent a considerable portion of our  7-year odyssey ; time away is time well spent if you are interested in having perspective on your life. It takes being outside...
Teaching my children to be happy

Teaching my children to be happy

I am learning how much I want my children to be happy. Of course, many of us want children to be happy; we want to protect their innocence and joy, as we wish someone had done for us.  I think the instinct to be protective of children is a good one…until we start...

Is there such a thing as a mistake?

Embodied Spirituality 3…A genuine exploration on my part of whether there is such a thing as a mistake (I find that there IS), and how that fits into the spiritual scheme of things.  I have found in my life that the defining moment is whether I KNEW BETTER and...