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These ponderings originally appeared one per day via MailChimp. This weekly version keeps them in one place for people who missed the daily postings. If you would like to sign up to get them daily, you can do so by filling out the Mailing List Form HERE. (Un) Stoppable As with preaching (when my sermons …
My beloved husband, whose (for want of a better descriptor) woo-woo tolerance is considerably lower than mine, has hung in with me valiantly. Of course, he is living with six and a half chakra panels in the room where we do yoga, so he can’t get away from it entirely. My 87-year-old father, who is …
I’m still thinking about consequences, bottom lines, and legacies [See: The Bottom Line from last week]…and (not surprisingly) that leads me to think about personas. What are the stories I tell about myself that have led me to a personal image that my family and friends, my colleagues and mentors would recognize as ‘Andrea’? What …
We stand on the cusp of a new year. I don’t know about you, but I am getting tired of new years that look just like the old year(s) except more so. Maybe it is time to ask some hard, life-challenging questions. For instance: Am I content to keep re-enacting past behaviors and relationship patterns? …
In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice – the feast of Yule – is upon us. On December 22, at 08:04 GMT, the North Pole reaches the point at which it is tilted furthest – 23.5 degrees – away from the Sun. As I wrote exactly a year ago: One breath later, we begin to …
Welcome to Samhain. In case you missed it, last Wednesday’s Reflection (29 October 2015) invites you to reflect on the past season – and the past year – and contains a ritual farewell to Lughnasadh and a ritual welcome to Samhain. The winter quarter has just begun in the ancient Irish calendar of the northern …
The headlines are enough to make even the most relentless optimist despair. Those of us who are trying to ignore world news still find it seeping in around the edges while we stand in lines at the grocery store or bank or post office and listen to the conversations around us. So, as we hurtle …
Some people (the Dalai Lama comes to mind) seem to go through this temporal existence instantly aware of each lesson that comes to them. Others of us stumble around for decades wondering why we keep bumping into the same sharp objects in the dark until we finally awaken to the possibility that it might be …
First: Special birthday greetings to my sister who will celebrate the start of another year tomorrow… and, therefore, an acknowledgment to my mother who was in labor right around now. I thought I would take this weekend to tell you about the start of our own labor of tidying up (See: Tidying Up and To …