When one goes to university one expects to learn. However, where and what do you learn? It is here I am discovering so much about myself and this question. Let’s see if I can share what I mean. Each morning I spend time meditating before I get out of bed. I use an app onContinue reading “What AM I learning?”
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Birthdays
I must admit, I needed to pull up a January 2018 calendar to check the dates. The dates I am checking on is my sobriety birthday. Is there joy in the fact I have lost track of the actual date? I love that! I love the fact that I must revisit a monthly calendar toContinue reading “Birthdays”
What I learn from knitting …
I met a woman and she was wearing the most beautiful knitted vest. I complimented her and she had made it herself. We talked and she airdropped the pattern to me via our iPhones while standing in the coffee shop. Two women – both in the third/third ** of life dropping files and using ourContinue reading “What I learn from knitting …”
When you move on….
Grief and loss are a huge challenge in our lives and strikes us from tip to tail. Dealing with emotions is a natural way we live and, while being a huge challenge, they are all part of living a full life and being experiential. Being present to every part of our living is how weContinue reading “When you move on….”
Spiritual Gerontology
There’s a movement underway to treat the mind body and spirit of our seniors and it is called “spiritual gerontology”. Spirituality being our path to sacred wholeness, being religious or secular and gerontology is the study of aging. This growing awareness in aging is productive and healthy. Cynthia Breadner, a master’s student, is focussing onContinue reading “Spiritual Gerontology”
2025 is a few hours away!
December 23
Today is the second to last day of the Santa visit. Tomorrow anticipation will climax as children around the world wait with anticipation, go to bed and find it hard to sleep, wonder what will happen over night. The magic of a man, in a red suit, now destined to bring toys, gifts and whatContinue reading “December 23”
Generative Aging
The Change of Year is upon us soon and as we shift focus from 2024 to 2025 it is being realized we are ¼ of the way through this century. Remember Y2K? Do you realize babies born in the year 2000 are now 25 years old? Time marches on at a speed by which weContinue reading “Generative Aging”
Moments in Time
As our children grow and become young adults, then parents themselves, there are moments of beauty that surface. My Shane was always an inquisitive sort. He loved to tear things down and see how they worked. I remember helping him carry a piece of equipment down to the basement, when he was about 11 yearsContinue reading “Moments in Time”
Gratitude
The sun is shining this morning after a very clear sky night! I was up about 2:30 and truly was amazed at the shadows in the yard. The moon was so bright once again, as it can be when the sky is clear of clouds, and it always stops to cause me ponder. I stoodContinue reading “Gratitude”
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