We call them dots. Their stories are one of the ways my husband got to know me in our early days. I would say, “You want to hear something wild that happened?” He would get quiet and listen intently as I’d tell him about the strings of seeming coincidences that added up to meaning beyond […]
Archives for January 2015
Featured Artist Stephanie Gagos
She Lived So many of us have survived hardships and pain in our lives. Some of us came into the world and early on had to learn how to survive, others have dealt with difficulties in their adult lives, surviving trauma, cancer, or other illnesses and heartbreak. It’s important to remember that you lived. “She […]
Part 4 – Road from Perdition
[Part four in a four-part series, delivered weekly. Click here for part one, published January 03, 2015] “Tomorrow morning, the Earth will come directly between a full moon and the sun, creating a full lunar eclipse,” my local weatherman tried to describe this anticipated and rare astronomical phenomenon. But for the first time, I wasn’t concerned about […]
Confessions of a Free-Range Spiritualist: Beyond the Pew
free-range (adjective) kept in natural conditions, with freedom of movement spiritualist (noun) a person who is concerned with or insists on the spiritual side of things. I like to call myself a free-range spiritualist. I’m not really a Unitarian, even though my husband and I were married by a Unitarian minister. And I’m not a […]
Part 3 – Road from Perdition
[Part three in a four-part series, delivered weekly. Click here for part one, published January 03, 2015] photo by Floyd Rocker “I’m afraid he’s going to kill me one day,” I pitifully told my son’s psychologist. After his five-day stay in the hospital, we’d spent the next three years doing what I call chasing rabbits down rabbit […]
Featured Artist Stephanie Gagos
Serene Warrior She is a warrior but she has come to a place of acceptance and peace within herself. Life just keeps unfolding for her in magical ways. She trusts that all will be well and yet she is ready if the need arises to step into her warrior spirit.
Celebrating Imperfectly Perfect Moments
We got to the hotel late Thursday evening…and it was not what I was expecting. We had to go 13 miles to check in because they only kept staff at their sister resort. We had a pretty large three-bedroom, three-bath condo right on the water…just the two of us. Way too much space for me […]
Pendulums, Prognosis & Pregnancy
There are 3 things you should know: I was raised on my intuition by my psychiatrist father: an M.D. who also heals with his hands and crystals and taught me to use the I-Ching at 8 years old. I was encouraged to speak to my body when it hurt or was sick and ask it […]
Featured Artist Stephanie Gagos
Courage of the Heart This is a portrait of courage, courage of the heart. It takes courage to lean on someone and to allow someone to lean on you and yet it is perhaps one of the most powerful things we can do.
Part 2 – Road from Perdition
[Part two in a four-part series, delivered weekly. Click here for part one, published January 03, 2015] “They expect me to wipe my own bottom,” my son complained during our phone call. It’s true. He didn’t know how to wipe his own bottom. That was just one of a thousand things he hadn’t learned to do yet; […]