Those we never meet in life live in our dreams. Have you ever met someone in your dream whom you’ve never actually met in real life? Was it what you expected it to be? I’m often entranced by those I meet in my dreams. And perhaps the most exciting part is that you’ll never know […]
Dreams of old herald changes on the horizon The smell of fall after a cool morning rain is an unmatched scent. It’s this time, this season, which holds the scent of life changing. Leaves morph in color and texture, changing from brilliant green to red, yellow, amber, crimson and brown. They curl and flap, clacking […]
Where your allegiance is, your behavior will follow As I stand in my yard in the morning, my bare feet pressing against the leaf riddled ground of mid-November, I’m entranced by the warm-cool wind as it glides over my face. It’s scent offering a petrichor of a time long passed. It is within these small […]
True growth is found along the rocky path. If someone asked you to paint a picture of your life, how would your composition look? Would it be full of color, of life, sound, with beautifully accented margins? Or would it be dull, gray, scrawled with deep strokes of coarse charcoal? The truth is, most of […]
Where is home? For some of us, for we who’ve moved about all our lives, this isn’t the easiest question to answer. For others, you don’t even have to think on it too long. Home is where you grew up, it’s where your parents raised you. Maybe it’s a family home. Perhaps it’s a place, […]
“The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else’s.” ~ Jay Woodman, SPAN When we are young, we are taking in so much […]
“The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.” ― Hans Christian Andersen, Classic Fairy Tales There was a time in your life when everything made sense—when nothing was complicated. Nothing made you question your place in the world. And nothing stood between you and living a full life, with a […]
Image credit: Thrive Global “I’ve always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect.” ― Benjamin X. Wretlind, Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors Transition is an interesting phase. You see the change firsthand, unfolding in […]
“It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.” ― Frank Warren There’s a word for that feeling you get, the one that takes your breath away. I’m sure you know what I speak of. When you enter a sphere of pure engagement, in love with the moment. When you’re completely […]
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” ― Oscar Wilde Life… Remember when you were young, standing tall, walking among the world as a giant? We all do. We all walked among one another as giants, once. But this was very long ago. Long ago when life was […]