Sometimes, the stars align and the universe smiles, and a person is bless down to their socks. Does happen all the time, but I was fortunately thusly, yesterday. Years ago, I studied in California to get my counselling degree…and one of my professors came to town this week to teach a week long course here…and …
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Perspective…
Band Aid Solutions
I’ve often heard of people speaking of a “band aid solution”…and when it is said, it is usually with a note of derision. It’s a bad thing to have a band aid solution…implies that a person is not addressing the issue at its source, and is providing a temporary and inadequate solution. I’m not so …
Aargh…Blossom pinching season
I worked hard on my flower beds this weekend…given the rain we’ve had the last couple of days, it seemed like this would give them a good soak right after they got planted…and if I waited for the sunshine, it might be a long while before I could get into the dirt, given the rainfall …
Testify to Love
For as long as I shall live, I will testify to love I’ll be a witness in the silences when words are not enough Avalon
Space for Holding Pain
I’ve had hearbreak in my life…times when I thought that the pain might have me go mad. Literally. If not mad, then I might die…or perhaps it was more that I just hoped to die…to escape the pain, to not have to live with the heartache. It was brutally hard to “hold the space for …
Sitting in the Dark
Compassion is knowing your darkness well enough that you can sit in the dark with others. Pema Chodron I thought faith would say, “I’ll take away the pain and discomfort”, but what it ended up saying is, “I’ll sit with you in it”. And I never thought until I found it, that it would be …
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When life seems chaotic, you don’t need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own. You need love and understanding and lots of room …
Shifting what we can
Often people do not have an ability to change their circumstances. We are stuck with living with what has happened to us…our past. We are born into the families we have…nothing we can do to change that. Often, life circumstances can be dictated as well…economic circumstances may dictate employment, housing and so on. What’s the …
Trust and uncommon friendship is always beautiful to witness. It challenges and inspires us to look for connection and allow ourselves to risk trusting another that change lives. sitellite/util/snippets (code=a62f60087818095a7f0d6e5653c604fc) “They harbor no fears, no secrets, no prejudices. Just living two creatures who somehow manage to look past their immense differences….if they can do it, …