Live and let live Tolerance, a fundamental value in AA, means that we acknowledge our personal shortcomings while letting others have their own. We focus on our similarities with other people rather than resenting our differences. I was sent a link today to a page of wisdom sayings that are commonly used in Alcoholics Anonymous. …
The Cookie Lady
Sometimes, you just watch something that looks sweet and feels great to see…and it reminds a person to be generous, walk humbly, and remember the big picture. I was at a high school boys basketball game on the weekend. Sweaty adolescents with too much testosterone scrapping it out to win. Played hard. Each team wanted …
A thought
I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it–I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my …
Inspiring Women to Embrace their Own Beauty
It’s not easy being a woman who is merely human, eh? If you’re a woman, you know what I’m talking about. We have lumps and bumps; rolls and “handles”; have too little in some places, and too much in others. Magazines give us advice for tightening various body parts, slimming down, and how to shop …
One woman’s counselling diary
Going to counselling is tough. In fact, so tough, that many people avoid it as long as possible. For many, that means counselling happens once things are “past the point of no return”. It’s unfortunate…because that actually can give counselling a bad rap…when people go only as they are already packing their bags to leave …
A Hand Up
Sometimes small drops acts of grace start a trickle, or maybe even a flood of action. That’s a good thing. The button that opens the door to the gas tank on my car stopped working last week. One of those wierd moments of frustration where the car was working fine, the gas tank was working …
Control Your Own Drawbridge
You must decide for yourself to whom and when you give access to your interior life. For years you have permitted others to walk in and out of your life according to their needs and desires. Thus you were no longer master in your own house, and you felt increasingly used. So, too, you quickly …
Beauty
You are beautiful….when you let friends have their space, when you believe, when you laugh, or are moved to tears, when you just let it roll off your back, when you talk about your dreams, when you help a turtle across the road, when you try to do the right thing even when it comes …
Dancing in the Minefields
Let’s go dancing in the minefields Let’s go sailing in the storms Oh, let’s go dancing in the minefields And kicking down the doors, Oh, let’s go dancing in the minefields And sailing in the storms This is harder than we dreamed But I believe that’s what the promise if for That’s what the promise …
Peace–It Could Happen Again.
“One frozen night in 1914, at the height of World War 1, the unthinkable happened: all along the Western front, the British and German soldiers lay down their weapons, an unofficial cease fire, to celebrate Christmas Eve together. They exchanged gifts, and saw each other as brothers, and that peace lasted for two more days, …