Tag: balance
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Still Walking, Thank You Very Much
A red hiking pole from the Camino de Santiago became my mother’s, then mine — and an unexpected conversation with a 90-year-old neighbor about why we refuse the cane.
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Taking a Beat from My Obsession with Helping
Helping others is second nature, enough that I once gave away $75,000 worth of work in a year. Then a friend’s project ate my summer and my own novel went silent. Time to take a beat.
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Lives Hanging in the Balance
When I was a little girl, I loved playing on the see-saw. It required a partner of some reasonable level of equality—one who wouldn’t get me near the top and bail on me, one who was content to alternate flying through the air, one who delighted just as much as I did in getting to…
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Words of Wisdom
Snippets I copied down from an insightful friend. A spiritual testing. A great new saga. Plan carefully, surround yourself with people who lift you, and stay neutral when you can’t control the situation.
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Bad on One Hand, Good on the Other
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Sigh. What next? Breakage, theft, loss. Just shell out the cash! Geez. The “bad” today was when I was dragging the watering hose to the far corner of the yard, the one little spot I hadn’t thought to ward, and…well…the plants were gone.…
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Starting a Spiritual Group and Getting the Energy Just Right
Jasmine incense, right after one of my famous Sunday Night Gatherings. This smoke art is copyrighted by Aislinn Bailey, used with permission. When I was first looking for a like-minded spiritual group in Northwest Florida, I found several existing circles rather easily. These were people who were either pagan or pagan-friendly, with anything from a…
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Screwing Myself with the Law of Attraction
From the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It I’ve really been screwing myself at work. The day job, that is. Once I realized what I was doing, I put an immediate stop to it. I’d let it get out of hand, and it…
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Balance Is the Key to the Law of Attraction Vortex
I don’t recall ever feeling better in my life than I do right now unless I was head-over heels in love or just hanging up from an editor’s call saying she wanted to publish my book or being wheeled out of the delivery room to see my newborn. Even then, those times were not a…
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Slam the Door Shut to Bring in Something Better
From the Bookshelf The Lost Teachings of Dead Monks — a magical library, forbidden knowledge, and a librarian facing the fears she has manifested. Available direct from the author → “Nature abhors a vacuum.” —Francois Rabelais Or to put it another way: When one door closes, another opens.Or, when one door closes, a window opens.Or…
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Taking the Right Action to “Attract Back” Someone Special
Do you have to take action to attract someone back into your life? The short answer is yes, but not in the way you might think. For that, you have to read the very long answer. The action that brings someone back into your life is a reflection of the action that caused them to…
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Why Even a High Priestess Needs to Do Housework
“How can I ever live a mundane life?” Two years ago, I sat at Melissa’s kitchen table and sipped the hot chai tea her husband had made for me while our kids played Neopets computer games upstairs. She’s been called to walk a spiritual path yet didn’t know how to take the first step. “A…
