Category: Aging Well
Reflections on aging as something to do well rather than survive — what changes, what matures, what to release, and what becomes possible only after you’ve lived long enough to recognize patterns.
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Second Chance Success Story
Though most people I see who are given second chances somehow manage to blow them in a big way, one of my all-time favorite work friends isn’t one of them. I haven’t seen her in years—we no longer work together and her life is very different now—but her story has a happy ending, and it…
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Energetic Mergers
I love energy play, and someone’s been playing with me today…in a very pleasant way. I allowed myself to be open to it, and even more importantly, I allowed myself to enjoy the interchange. Yes, I know who it is. He has a particular “signature” to his energy. It started with the 3rd chakra here…
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Second Chances and Last Chances
We often get second chances. But what do we do with them? First, we have to recognize a second chance when it comes along. By virtue of an issue coming up again for us or our seeing a pattern that’s not good for us, the Universe if presenting us with a second chance. It’s too…
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And Then Again….
Maybe it’s just a matter of distinguishing who my real friends are, saving the great news just for them, and being a total bitch to everyone else. After the blast of negativity from the second colleague/old friend with whom I shared a tidbit of news, I received an email from another friend. She’d emailed me…
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I Will Not Share Good News… I Will Not Share….
I close my eyes tightly and will everything to go away as I chant. I will not share good news…I will not share good news…I will not share good news…. That’s right! I have a new mantra! In the past 24 hours, I’ve heard from two old friends I hadn’t heard from much in the…
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Living the Lie
“I bet she wears the pants in that family!” Two receptionists sit in my doctor’s office, unaware that they can be heard in the next room. Their remarks aren’t catty, however. It’s just mild gossip and speculation. The woman has just been taken back to the doctor’s exam table. She’s friendly, open-hearted, in charge. She…
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A Sudden Need for Motion
My spiritual guides have been incredibly active for the past few weeks. It’s been epiphany after epiphany, as if some great veil is being lifted. I’m settling into a new mindset and staying aware of all these intensities going on around me. Which isn’t easy. Any upsets that clobber me emotionally tend to cast a…
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Aphrodisiac? Big Mistake!
Some things, I’ll keep to myself. Here I am trying to make small talk and being friendly…big mistake. I’m in the grocery store and the instant I walk in, I know it’s autumn and they’re selling cinnamon brooms again. I love cinnamon brooms. Just can’t stop inhaling it. The smell permeates the whole store. I’m…
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Forgiveness Is an Open Door (for Crap to Come Back In)
Forgiveness may be something I shouldn’t do. This has come up for me before. I’m often told that I see only the good in people. Not so—which is something I work out in my journal—but I like to believe in a person’s potential and that they can change. I’m told that I forgive really bad…
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The Forest for the Trees
I don’t know that anything rocks me more than discovering something hidden about someone. Some people will go to any lengths to keep things hidden. I think about past relationships—friends, romantic, spouse, family—and things that were hidden, sometimes even from themselves. The first moment of realization was surreal. Once it sank in a few…
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Karmic Cycles and My Sense of Justice
Karma is all about cycles. It’s that old “what goes around, comes around” coming around again. Sometimes we feel there’s no justice in the world because we don’t see the punishment or the reward right away. Sometimes we don’t see the cycles because they take longer than our lives or merely longer than our attention…
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No More Looking for a Man Who’s My Equal?
Have I been “looking for love” in all the wrong places? My old friend—the one who so enjoys being submissive to his wife—suggests I have. He alleges that I’ll never find anybody “worth having” around here in the usual way and that it’s time to change my paradigm and start taking bids. “The two…
