Zombie Reality Check…

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. ~Brian Tracy~ Are you living a mindless life or a mindful one?I love a good zombie flick, so this is the right time of  year for me.  All...

The Last Ordinary Day

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~Henry Drummond~ As are so many, I’ve been thinking about the 10th anniversary of 9/11.  I told myself I was...

Person to Person…

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~Mother Teresa~ I have been in a bit of a funk over the past week.  Not many would notice, but on the inside there is a gnawing discomfort. ...

Are You Pecking at the Kick Plate of Your Life?

I wrote this back in March 2010, but wanted to share it with you today. I think it still applies.  “Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” -Victor Hugo-  Okay, so we...

The Magic Garden

The best place to seek God is in a garden.  You can dig for him there.  ~George  Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932 It’s so nice to be blogging again.  I’ve been finishing up my book and haven’t made the time...

Welcome to Just One Little Thing…

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we’re living. ~Einstein~Welcome to Just One Little Thing!I invite you to come with me on the next leg of the...

Lessons From the Road….

…he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time...

Pema Chodron-We Just Don’t Know….

  When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we don’t know what’s really going to happen. When we think something is going to give us misery, we don’t know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We try to do...

The Next Leg of the Journey…

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault~ Hello friends, First, I want to begin by saying thank you for all the support over the past two years. In life, we truly find our strength, not in isolation, but by sharing and...