My Personal Manifesto

There are many reasons to write a personal manifesto. There are also many online guides on how to write a personal manifesto. If you are a do-it-yourself kind of person. I decided to write a personal manifesto because I have been working hard to clarify what exactly I’m doing here as a human on planet…

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My Five Guiding Principles

Many years ago, I was given five guiding spiritual principles for my life. It was during a 10 day retreat on the Big Island of Hawaii with Vanessa Stone. We were located across the street from an old lava flow that went right down to the ocean and the view was incredible. It gave that stomach…

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The Time Of Coronavirus

colorful muted sunset sky

This is unprecedented. This is nothing we have ever done before. What is most important? Envision an awakened world. Recognize you do not know what that looks like, exactly. You do not need to create this world. You just need to be devoted to its emergence. If you are focused on fear it is ok.…

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Fear Is An Opportunity

I just realized the amount of anxiety and fear I live with every day is an opportunity. An opportunity for self-awareness. That is the main thing. Self-awareness. After that, you may or may not really need to do any kind of fancy process to digest or process or transform your fear. Once you are AWARE,…

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Love The Life We've Got

There is so much to be said for cycles. For knowing that there are cycles. For knowing that the pain always subsides, eventually. So, today, none of the darkness has manacled me. Skies are blue with cooling autumn weather ahead. Potential is here. Love is present. I’ve been reflecting lately on how powerful it can…

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Slow Rejuvenation

Waking up today I didn’t feel like I weighed a thousand pounds. Instead, I felt energy slowly returning to my body and heart. The love and the light are finding their way into me. Rejuvenating me. Being willing to walk through the darkness and grief and anger and sadness, into it fully, to wait there…

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Friendship Lessons

Today is another day. Sometimes when I wake up, I am grateful to be alive. Excited for what will come in the hours ahead. Other times (like this morning), I lie in the gray light and wonder why I feel like I weigh 1,000 pounds. I’ve made a commitment (to myself) to write honestly about…

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How and what I am ~ How and what I wish to be

For some reason I don’t exactly understand, and in no particular order, I feel compelled to write and share these facts about myself. I am a: photographic artist writer visionary healer horse rider dog trainer closet designer botanist tarot reader web-mistress & wanna-be internet-marketing-mistress teacher chef gardener plant ecologist animal lover baker traveler spiritual warrior…

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Jake, My Beloved Dog

Yesterday, August 23, 2018, right around 6 PM EST, one of the most wonderful dogs ever born left this world. Jake came to me in summer 2003, just over 15 years ago, after my dad died of cancer and my dog, Buddy, was hit by a car and killed that same night. The grief of…

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the Mystery

Religion. Spirituality. God. We are religious, or we are not religious. We are spiritual, but not religious. We are atheists. We are agnostics. We pray to Jesus, our savior. We pray to God. We pray but not to anything. We go to church. We meditate. We do yoga. We travel to an ashram in India.…

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