I cannot stand gossip. No, wait. It’s more than that. It’s discussion of other people at a level that I never even considered gossip before but now, it irritates me to the point of wanting to throw people out restaurant windows.
I think this is what that Bible verse means about noticing the speck of dust [...]
Continue reading about The Beam in Your Eye–and Not the Good Kind
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
My focus for April was “ebb and flow and mostly flow.” The focus for May? “Get ready.”
Getting ready is not about just taking a deep breath and waiting. It’s about getting ready. Preparing. Taking care of all those last minute things that must be [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
My focus for April was “ebb and flow and mostly flow.” So did I?
In going with the “flow,” I followed where the energy took me. Sometimes that was very intent on work and other times just flowing with the emotions and physical feelings. If [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
We’re supposed to meet the new General, so we’ve been told what time to be ready to shake his hand in the introductions. The meeting before him ran a little late, so we’re waiting in the hallway and my colleagues from down the hall [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
I’ll probably implode tomorrow. Beltane. Moon in Scorpio. Full Moon energies. Everything reeks of mating rituals, so obviously, they’re on my mind. Grrrrr. (And that’s a “Grrrr. Argh.” Not a flirty growl.)
For the past few years, I’ve been swinging insanely between do I want [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
I have strawberries. There’s a medical term for it, but I don’t remember it. All I remember is that my lovers have always referred to them as “strawberries”—either with great fascination or great disdain and precious little in between.
They’re tiny scarlet freckles, no larger [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
Something today kicked up a notch. I’m not sure what, but I felt a palpable shift in energies. It’s a little buzz of excitement.
It could, of course, be the fact that Beltane is coming up in a couple of days. That might explain the [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
Wowser. That was…amazing.
Sometimes my dreams take on a different “texture” so that they’re an odd blend of being in a twilight place where I talk to the Higher Selves of others. It’s a slightly less “controlled” form of communication than when I walk between [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
I’m not upset. I swear, I’m not upset. I am…amused.
Earlier in the week, the guy I’d thought I was going to be out with tonight was trying to decide if a weekend date fit his schedule and when and what we’d do and he [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
Tonight, I’m celebrating the ending of old things and the beginning of new things. I believe that’s called a transition, and transitions—however hard at times—are worth celebrating, especially when you’re a little more on the side of the beginnings than the endings.
The celebration is [...]
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Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
I wonder what he’s doing now or where he is. I haven’t thought of him in years. I’m not even sure I’d remember what he looked like, except that he had brown hair, green eyes, and was very muscular.
He was an engineer who worked [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
Although book sales in general are way down, the romance genre still holds the lion’s share of the market, and of course, there’s the usual hullabaloo over “image” that’s been going on for the past 20 years of writers trying to get rid of [...]
Continue reading about Why Romance Novels Are Still So Very Popular
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve noted that my meditations include “metaphysical houses,” which are representative “structures” of the inner workings of a person, community, partnership, or situation. I didn’t set out to visit such places but rather, I just landed there and [...]
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I’ve been trying to connect with the child who’s following me but haven’t been very successful. So far, he’s appeared on the edge of my Meditative Forest, a little wary of the man who seems to have taken up residence in this private place [...]
Continue reading about Meditations: Jesus Looks Like M. Night Shyamalan?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
While reading up on the latest in the Allen Lee case and why he said the things he did about his teacher’s method of teaching inspiring school shootings (as someone with an English degree, I understand his point, however ill-timed or misconstrued), I suddenly [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
The power to “disturb” is a mighty and wonderful thing, because if you have the power to disturb, you have the power to persuade, to draw out certain emotions, to affect change. That’s also why some people are so terrified of it.
I’m not pro [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
Yep, he found my journal. Spent the day researching me. Read various posts from 2 pages and doesn’t understand:
1. My sense of humor
2. My spirituality
3. My being a mom
4. My books
5. My musical tastes
6. My worldview
7. My sexuality
8. My conflicted feelings over my dad
Keep [...]
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I’ve come to terms with the fact that my best asset to any organization is my ability to generate ideas. I have tons of ideas. Wild ideas. Crazy ideas. Creative ideas. Never-done-before ideas. Legal but can-you-really-do-that ideas. Subversive ideas. Analytically supported ideas. “Effin’ Brilliant” [...]
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This is important for reasons I cannot yet fathom, except that I’m looking for what is real.
We’re so sure of what reality is. We gaze at the night sky, at what’s not visible in the glare of harsh light, and congratulate ourselves on seeing [...]
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Oh, good grief. Men play such petty little games. They want to go out and then they don’t want to go out and then they might want to go out but they’re not sure. What? Do you think I’m sitting here painting my toenails and reading Cosmo waiting for you to make up your mind [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
Although my daughters are teens now, they still call me the same thing they did as little girls. “Mommy.” Except around their friends. They try to be cooler then and just not call me anything.
I like being called “Mommy,” so as they’ve gotten older, [...]
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Occasionally the Universe gives me little pushes and I don’t realize it. Sometimes the pushing starts rather suddenly and forces me to act quickly. Sometimes I refuse to see it until I’m at the cliff’s edge and the ground is giving way under me [...]
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In another of my own personal version of “Groundhog Day: The Movie,” I woke yet again to Hinder’s “Lips of an Angel.” Different time, different station, same song…every day this week, including weekends.
I hated the song the first zillion times I heard it, but [...]
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I seem to be either concentrating on ONE thing, so focused that I could forget anything else going on for a little while or…. Well, okay, that’s actually rare. It’s usually something creative or someone or some subject I feel intensely about but it’s [...]
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising.
I’ve definitely been more emotional than usual this past week, though most people haven’t really observed it unless they’ve been following my journal.
Maybe it’s because of the National news, which I’m mostly avoiding but it seeps through. Or maybe it’s all the people at [...]
