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Let's not mince words: Each of the presidential candidates is focused on a particular quality in the 2024 election: Republican Candidate for President, former President Donald Trump is focused on fear. Democratic Candidate for President, … [Continue reading] about While the candidates focus on Fear & Joy in the November Elections, My Focus is Faith (what’s yours?)
I choose to get up early every morning even though I don't have to. I was raised to be a late bird. Most nights I'd fall asleep to the clatter of our father's manual typewriter as he wrote plays and the loud television as our mother strained to hear … [Continue reading] about Do the One Thing First & Early
My husband and I just finished binging the third season of The Bear on Hulu.* The story of a highly dysfunctional family (you discover just how dysfunctional over the course of the series) trying to run a restaurant is, as all critics will and … [Continue reading] about Are you a Chef or a Jeff? Spiritual Lessons of The Bear
As the grandchild of a Jungian, I was raised on "synchronicity"--the Jungian term for paying attention to coincidence. My grandmother, Sally Stevens Nichols, author of Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, lived by it, and my mother definitely … [Continue reading] about Pay Attention to Coincidence
It turns out I've been asking the wrong questions about the presidential candidates in the 2024 U.S. election. For years I've been judging the general American public who seems to think that the best question is who will be the most fun to watch … [Continue reading] about Sit back and Enjoy the Presidential Election Reality TV Show
I've nodded sagely over the years as I've heard a friend share that one of the ways she survives in relationships is by "not blaming, or shaming or making other people (especially her life partner) wrong." "Me too," I thought, "me too" as I … [Continue reading] about I am right and you are wrong
I'm guessing that a large percentage of our readers are news junkies who (happily or not) consume tons of content from various sources that they are perfectly capable of picking for themselves, thank you very much. An equally large percentage are … [Continue reading] about breathe, pray, subscribe: how to deal with this week’s news (whatever it is)
I do. Have you noticed this phenomenon? Everyone is camping, at a cabin, or visiting someone for a few days. The plan is to drive home, say, late on Monday. Throughout the weekend, people have fun, and there's talk about how they're going to stop at … [Continue reading] about Hit the road mode–ever wonder why we often cut our trips short?
We get together with a group of longtime friends almost every year at a different rental home on the West Coast of the U.S. A couple of years ago, I confessed to an advisor that I had some anxiety about our activities on the trip because I … [Continue reading] about What if it your vacation were 100% up to you?
Americans love movies, and our favorite genre has to be the one where the good guy beats the bad guy. The problem is that we also project (or are manipulated into projecting) these movies right from our minds onto what we call reality. Right now, the … [Continue reading] about Which Presidential Election Movie are you projecting?
In Love Without End: Jesus Speaks, Glenda Green captures the words of Jesus, the master teacher, as he sits for a portrait with her in the late 1990s. She says that the Master tells us that each of us has within us a literal physical and spiritual … [Continue reading] about How to Know What You Know: access your divine wisdom in your sacred heart
This post is a slight rewrite of a post I published at the beginning of 2020. The wisdom of this principle may be even more important now as we continue to recover from the effects of the worldwide pandemic on our institutions and volunteer-driven … [Continue reading] about How to Know What You Know: Ask for More, Not Less