“There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” ~ Calvin Coolidge I lived on this soup when I was a university student, back in my sharehouse days, and then again when I bought my first house and every spare cent went on the mortgage repayments. […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 19 September 2016
“Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.” ~ Robert Brault Hello Lovelies, Here’s this week’s oracle card and my take on the energetic outlook for the days ahead. ‘Never-ending Story’, from Colette Baron-Reid’s Wisdom of the Oracle deck is the card I have chosen for this week. Do you remember […]
A Little Nicole Update
“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.” ~ Anthony de Mello So, here I am, still in hospital. There have been a few little bumps in the road, including a massive resurgence of lyme symptoms and […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday September 12 2016
“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 5 September 2016
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection […]
The Very Valid ‘Not Coping’ Style of Coping
“It’s funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools – friendships, prayer, conscience, […]
The Energies of September – 2016
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Hello, Lovelies Welcome to September. It’s such a lovely heart-centered month. A month for simplifying. For focusing […]