Day: May 8, 2010

  • What I’ve Learned from Blogging

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. Defy your past? That’s right—defy it. A pox on all those people who tell you to “embrace your past.”  Embracing  it doesn’t do anything  but keep you trapped in old patterns that no longer serve you. Look, we’re all a little messed up. It’s…

  • And Mommies with Bad Judgment

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. Sometimes mommies just do really stupid things that will ensure that their little boys are either going to grow up to be fascinated by Alpha women or terrified of them. A few weeks ago, I set aside several hours to do some particularly strenuous…

  • Bad Mommies

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. One of my hot buttons that I don’t think will ever cool down is to see another mother do something  really stupid or self-centered. Who am I to judge? I’ll tell you. I  am  the  non-swimmer   who’s  stayed  (more  than once!)  with  …

  • Pencil in Some Fun?

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. My mentor applauds my high-focus  on getting projects  completed and new ones  kicked  off. There  is, of course, a “but” to this praise. “Hmmm,”  she  says.  “You’ve  planned  for  activities that support the career sector, the home sector, the spiritual sector, the health sector.…

  • Inner Chatter

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. “Have you noticed,” AngelSu asks me, “that your inner chatter has stopped?” I would have been shocked at her observation, except that I’d had  the  same epiphany earlier in the day. With this new sense of calm comes a lessening of the “voices.” Not…

  • Just an Anecdote about Garbage

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. She’s with the contracted janitorial service for my office—a talkative and cheerful Asian woman—and though I desperately try, I really have to strain to understand her, even after a year of seeing her every workday. I make an effort to communicate  but her command …

  • Defy Your Past

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. Like attracts like. There’s something  about an energy that’s put out by others that our antennae pick up on and we’re drawn in. Some similarity. Some…reflection. After my  divorce,  it  seemed  every  other  person  I talked to was dealing with verbal abuse and didn’t…

  • Why the Tulip

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. I’ve been asked why the girl in the previous post has a tulip. This has been described  to me in detail by my ex- mom-in-law, but I’ll be brief. It’s not so strange that this child would show up in this meditation,  yet  she…

  • 9 of Pentacles: The Lady in the Garden

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. I’m not sure what happened to author Jill Jones. I lost track of  her. I used to read her “literary suspense” novels from St. Martin’s Press in the 90’s and we’d meet up at various writers’ conferences  and talk about various New Age  topics.…

  • Serious Matters: The Little Girl with the Tulip

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. I stand on the astral, and the second I know where I am, I am moving. Forward. Long strides. Set jaw. Only fools would try to stop me. I am as I always am on the astral-taller, leaner, long brown hair flowing behind me,…