It’s a Wonderful Life – Nov 18, 2022
Shout out Your Thanks One of my favorite Thanksgivings came many years ago when I flew back home to Michigan to surprise my family for the Holiday. I enrolled my sister in helping me and we just showed up for dinner that Thursday. The looks on their faces; the joy...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Nov 11, 2022
Grateful for Everything I am pretty sure everyone knows there is a drought in California. So the last two days that beautiful white stuff has been falling from the sky into my backyard. I think it snowed continuously for 24 hours plus…and as I look out my study...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Nov 4, 2022
Leading and Living from Heart The most important part of this shift is the change of mind to focus on the heart- to focus on a feeling rather than a set of facts or figures. Rather than everything that has been tried before; we try new tools and delve into new...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Oct 28, 2022
Heart Centered Leadership For me, the new era for humanity calls for a new form of leadership with an emphasis on different qualities and different capacities. If we were to describe the era we are living through; I think it would contain a very masculine energy – a...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Oct 21, 2022
The Infinite Intelligence In a podcast this week, with Deepak Chopra, he said the following: “The intellect cannot correct mistakes of the intellect.” It resonates with what Einstein said about solving problems. For me it speaks to the shift necessary to bring in...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Oct 14, 2022
Meaningful Solutions It might have been Freud who said doing the same thing over and over expecting different results could be the definition of insanity. When I look across the landscape of events- from stock market losses to gas prices (here in CA at $7 plus...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Oct 7, 2022
Vision or Visualization One of my favorite quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King is ..” the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.” I never realized how profound a vision he must have had to say that in his time. There was very little evidence of justice...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Sept 30, 2022
Desmond and the Dalai The proof of Ubuntu- Some years ago, I was privileged to attend a series of talks in Reno gifted through the Tobacco Millennial Scholarships. One of the speakers was the late, great Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He began his talk with thanking...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Sept 23, 2022
The Power is in the Formless Looking at the above photo, we see the magic of fall. This photo could have been taken of an Aspen Grove near Durango Colorado that I had many an occasion to watch. We would arrive at the end of September and the grove would be tinging...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Sept 16, 2022
What you see is what you get Many years ago I heard Wayne Dyer say that you see what you believe…..It provoked me to pause then and it provokes me now…am I believing what I see or vice versa? We have also known for years that perception is projection…they are the...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Sept 9, 2022
There is a crack in everything Many years ago when I was first learning to knit, I was constantly dismayed at my many mistakes. Around that same time, I was traveling to New Mexico and I had occasion to meet a Native weaver in Taos. We shared our love of textiles...
It’s a Wonderful Life – Sept 2, 2022
Love-the unconditional kind I wrote last week of love – the love that exists in every form from hummingbirds to rock stars. And I wrote of the Love that we are – the substance of us -that shows up as we accept this truth more and more into the practical day to day...