Last year when I gave myself goals, I was coming from a place of things to do, what I need to accomplish. Not that this is evil or wrong, but this year as I look forward, I am not creating a list from the same place. I’ve grown. I’ve matured in ways I never even [...]
I started this blog several years ago as an outlet – a creative, emotional outlet. It’s underlying theme and focus has been to seek balance in my life and to explore where I’m unbalanced and how to correct it.
Along the way, I’ve grown. The pressing urge to become perfect has fallen away. In it’s place [...]
I started guitar lessons this week. There’s several reasons for doing this. One, I’ve always wanted to learn. Simple as that.
Two, I don’t have a piano and want a musical outlet. Art, music, reading, writing – all these things nurture the soul. It’s important regardless of what’s going on in one’s life to nurture [...]
I realized I’d been wanting something because of injuries I sustained in my marriage. Not the “ooh, I’m bleeding, grab a tourniquet” sort of injury but the deep, feel it in your psyche for years, hidden from plain sight kind. And don’t ask what it was I wanted because I won’t tell you. But like [...]
This past week was hell. Just when I felt comfort and balance in my life, I experienced a fall-out, leaving me dangling and whirling around like Harry Potter on a runaway broomstick. Before I could catch my breath, something new would come flying at me and whack me across the face like so many tree [...]
I was talking to a good friend of mine today. She was laughing about relationships and said that in her view, men get fearful when things are going a little wrong while women get fearful when they are going good. I don’t know if this is a universal truth or just the truth in her [...]
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