I've always been talkative. (I can hear great laughter in the background). When I was 5 years old I had a Chatty Cathy doll. I'd pull her string and once got so tired of HER talking that I actually remember throwing her down the basement stairs. Uh oh...that might say something about my character. Awww, [...]
A friend of mine died this weekend. It was sudden and the details don’t matter. This news felt like a kick in the gut, I literally felt all the blood rush to my head as I heard the news. My breathing actually stopped. I had to have it repeated several times to really take it [...]
I heard this just today... it's mans supreme arrogance that he can screw up his life. I believe in divine order and that all suffering stems from human attachment and ego. At least that's my thinking today. And, that we are so much more powerful and full of loving kindness that we know or which [...]
Some days I feel that life is quite random and then others, entirely planned, the universe having it’s perfect reaction to shift and turn us where we need to go, where we need to wake up. I think? It’s awful some of the time, harsh and cruel really, feeling like being bandied about in a [...]
I heard it....in the 1955 film entitled, 'The Tender Trap.' 'If you have a plan, and believe in your plan, you'll get what you want.' If Debbie said it, I believe it....even though it was an insipid 1950s era film, with all those cigarettes and cocktails and flawed belief systems, with Frank Sinatra, who I [...]
I'm pondering the nature of peace this evening.... I'm thinking the kind that allows one's body to rest, mind to relax and soul to expand in the way only meditation can bring on, or great love. And at the same time I consider Mr. Hammarskjold's assertion and my mind does cartwheels and somersauts with consideration [...]
Company Memo FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director TO: All Employees DATE: October 1, 2009 RE: Gala Christmas Party I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash bar and plenty [...]
All there for us, for the taking if we can REMEMBER..... How I love dogs. They are so IN THE MOMENT and FULL of joy. And how beautifully emphasized, showcased in this delightful Christmas spirited Harry Connick Jr. video and song with Bailey the Reindeer Pup! And FYI....in Montana, where my family resides, 35 below [...]
I've been fortunate that most of my life I have been able to do the sort of the work I choose. Certainly there have been jobs in the interim, short term jobs which got me from one place to another, but all fed the stream that led me to the ocean, the place where all [...]
Anne Sexton, the woman and poet, intrigued me greatly as a young woman. Her personal story I found fascinating, her death, shocking and her friendship with Sylvia Plath I understood. One of my favorite poems of hers is 'For Johnny Pole on the Forgotten Beach'. I have a brother named Johnny who I love dearly. [...]