Are You Still Singing the Song of Coping?
“The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy… Stay with it, no matter what people tell you.”
~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1988)
Hello, Lovelies.
September brings energies for reinvention, and for strengthening our understanding of
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Pretty, Not Just Serviceable.
Hello, Friends.
When my husband unloaded an armful of mail onto our dining room table last Friday, my heart sank - because there among the letters and boxes was a soft, squishy mailer. I knew exactly what it was, and even though I’d ordered it, there was no joy in the receiving. I hoped I could grab
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What If You Can’t See It Working Yet?
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Hello, Lovelies.
Here we are, at the cusp of September. It’s a potent time for reinvention, and for strengthening our understanding of who we are, what we stand for, and what we want.
The third
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What If You’re Not Actually Lost?
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
— Mary Oliver
Hello, Lovelies.
This week, the magic is in the moment. That can be a hard thing – to stay present when it’s so much easier to slip back into the past, or to project into the future. Still, I encourage you to try, because the energies around this
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Divinity in Blue Jeans
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anaïs Nin
Hello, Lovelies.
Sometimes a week turns up where the energies don’t exactly shout, and we can miss them if we’re not paying attention. This week, pay attention. The thing waiting for
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You Have Value, Even Broken
Hello, Friends.
Last week I was sitting on the loungeroom floor early in the morning, a cup of tea going cold beside me, as I opened the archive boxes my husband had been lugging down from the attic. I was after a particular crystal for a student, and I hoped to find it here in my old pre-2000
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The Wisdom Your Blood Whispers
"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."
— Hermann Hesse, Demian
Hello, Lovelies.
We have an unusual week coming up. The kind where the clarity of insight or message will be hard to ignore. And
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Why I File My Clients By First Name
Hello, friends.
It started off like any other ordinary day. Like we often do, just before 7am my husband and I got into the family car, Rufous - tail wagging and a bright smile on his face - in the back. We drove toward the local shops to grab some groceries and then check the mail.
I was sitting in
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A Bridge Has Two Ends
Rufous, waiting for cheese to fall from the sky, which it frequently does here in the Treehouse.
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
— Ella Maillart
Hello, Lovelies.
Here we are in first full week of
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Surviving the Life You’re Given
“People may think you’re giving up, when in fact you are simply giving in to the reality of your new life.”
— Toni Bernhard, How to Be Sick
Hello, Friends.
I met a girlfriend for coffee yesterday.
She’s an
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