If I had to pick a place to be it would very likely be somewhere near water. I don’t love being in water, unless it is very warm outside or very warm in the water (I don’t like being cold), but I do very much like being water adjacent. That is, I like being able…
I was curious when I saw the headline “These 4 rules will let you know when it is okay to lie.” ‘Oh really,’ I thought, ‘someone has figured out when it is no longer bad to be dishonest and how to avoid the slippery slope that follows the white-lies are okay crowd.’ I read the…
“I’m older than I once was, younger than I’ll be that’s not unusual.” So says Paul Simon and it’s a simple truth at every moment of our lives. I live in an area where we have pushed the notion of being young well into middle age and so my sense of time and aging has…
Patience, the dictionary says, is the ability to accept or tolerate delay, trouble or suffering without getting angry or upset. The key to experiencing patience lies in the ability to accept the things that bother you because it doesn’t require patience to accept things that are not disagreeable or that you enjoy. For instance, if…
(Tales of the Animals Part 3 – or so) One of the dogs is totally self-realized. She knows what she likes, she manages her own happiness and while she cares deeply about the people around her she does a great job of owning her own feelings. One of the dogs is extremely co-dependent, and I…
Which is it? Which should it be? What is my obligation with respect to my behavior, choices and actions? Are there guidelines; should there be guidelines? Who decides? These are questions that ran through my mind as I lay in my hotel room bed wanting very much to be asleep and instead listening to my…
To say that love is complicated seems like an almost ridiculous understatement. We can look at the definition and assess our relationships against that defined criteria, and yet there remains an intangible element that exists only as a feeling. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t, our “love” for one person is different than our “love”…
Happy, sad, grumpy, excited, nervous, giddy – these are all things we feel at one time or another and none of them are forever. Despite the fact that emotions are transitory we have this sense that they are permanent conditions and we end up spending a lot of time in variations on a negative: either…
Tales of the Animals Part 2 Having a pet (or if you live in Berkeley being an “animal guardian”) is in my personal opinion one of the best ways to do some intensive learning about yourself, also perhaps growing and changing if you choose to use the lessons toward that end. There are the obvious…
One of my very favorite things to do is walk. It helps me relax, process emotions, reason out problems, I never feel bad after I have gone for a walk, even if I fall and my body is hurting my spirit is always improved by a walk. Often when I walk I listen to a…
Faith Works 