Where there is prayer, there is much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer. - Andrew Murray All I know is when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don't pray they don't happen. - Dan Hayes -photo from Karin Henseler...
No Mud, No Lotus Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world with a lot of tenderness. – Thich Nhat Hanh Above photo taken by Denyse...
Inhale, MMMMMMMM. I practice bumble bee breath in tune with the army of leaf blowers who are clearing the common area where I live. I woke up depressed and out of sorts because of a number of things going on in my life. When the leaf blowers start too early their...
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau Above photo credit Erin Arvella - Yoga...
“If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face up to realness, we can clear our vision and curb a whirlwind of bewilderment that might break our mind apart, once fantasy wrangles with reality and our awareness denies the...
My news and Facebook feeds are full of stories about how Eastern inspired techniques like Meditation, Yoga and/or Tai Chi can ease life’s stresses. While this is useful information, I can recall one point in my overscheduled life when I felt my stress level increase...
For months the refrain of ANTICIPATION from the Carly Simon song released in November 1971 has been running through my mind. That song and its lyrics were so apt for the soon to be high school graduate who had her mind set on exploring her life outside of her family...
Spring arrived in April this year. Virginia’s spring is usually a bit earlier than the spring of PA and NJ where I spent much of my life. I relish and welcome the spring flowers as they brighten the transition from cold to warm days. The sunny smiling daffodils,...
I recently read an article by Bonnie L. Grant entitled “Antidepressant Microbes in Soil: How dirt makes you happy”. My mind was instantly flooded with my own gardening memories. My first garden was an act of love taught to me by my Dad. He missed his bounty from...
As mentioned in previous posts, my obsession with lavender stems from my father’s influence when he asked me to use the word to calm him from worrying about places where I ended up as a result of my global business travel. The word caught on and it became a word that...