I received some great ideas for things to do at home during the Coronavirus. Conscious Life News sent this to me today and I’m sharing with you. It’s wonderful to see how many cultural institutions are allowing us to enjoy their offerings. So, for you culture buffs, get to work! (See below) TheMindUnleashed.com (TMU) — Let’s face it: things are looking bad in the world, and if we haven’t already felt the heavy impact of the coronavirus outbreak, we soon will. ...
You might be wondering what there is to be happy about given the present world situation. Tomorrow is World Happiness Day and also the first day of Spring. Are you starting to feel happy yet? [caption id=“attachment_2976” align=“alignleft” width=“960”] “Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, ‘Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on.” (Henry Burton)[/caption] ...
[caption id=“attachment_3629” align=“alignleft” width=“525”] “We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.” -Author Unknown[/caption] Life has drastically changed these days for people all over the world since the Coronavirus appeared. Every conversation and move we make revolves around this outbreak. From the World Health Organization and other bodies responsible for health down to health authorities in individual communities, we’re well-informed about what to do. This post is not in the least bit scientific or medical. Those details are best left to the experts. Any such information on the virus that you need to know is as near as your television or computer screen. You are probably already washing your hands regularly, keeping surfaces clean, and avoiding crowds. ...
“How much we know and understand ourselves is critically important, but there is something that is even more essential to living a Wholehearted life: loving ourselves.” (Brene Brown) We are self-conscious creatures from birth. Loving ourselves should be the most natural thing in the world one would think. It is sort of expected. Yet, it poses a big problem for most of us. We worry about how we look, how we dress, whether others like us, whether we’re too fat or too thin, whether we fit in, and a host of other things. As a member of the female species, I think that this is truer for women than for men. We just can’t seem to accept and love ourselves for who we are. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh ...
What path are you following? There are so many options and choices to be made in life with regard to the “right” path. Is there a right path, one might ask? My own life experience tells me that the path is wide open and there is no absolutely right one. There are different wisdom traditions and different schools of thought a person might pursue or follow in life. The “right” path is one that has meaning for the individual involved and leads that person to live a better life. What is the right path for you is certainly not the right path for me. Don’t compare your path with anybody’s else’s. Your path is unique to you. Whatever path you take, it’s God calling you. - Ram Dass ...
[caption id=“attachment_4351” align=“aligncenter” width=“956”] This should have read “Leave A Little Sparkle Behind Wherever You Go.” However, I would have needed a larger canvas for that.[/caption] Many people don’t live to see their 70th birthdays. I’m one of the lucky ones you might say. We do become more reflective as we age and this birthday finds me looking back over the years. You may ask what has living all these years brought my way? Surely, it’s brought what life brings to everyone of us - ups and downs, joys and sorrows, good and bad experiences, and so much more along the way. ...
Parenting is one of those jobs that most of us don’t have a clue about until we have our first child. Somehow we feel that we will know what to do “naturally.” In some ways this may be true, but in others, it is absolutely false. Some mothers, for example, take to breast feeding quite easily. Others have to be taught about getting the baby “latched on” the right way. Others yet just choose to bottle-feed. ...
To make anything of beauty, it takes time, effort, and work. When I was much younger, it was harder to see how interconnected life really was and derive all of what that meant. Somehow, individualism and independence caused me to shy away or misunderstand that every facet or thread in the weave of life matters. What I didn’t know is that it takes a whole lifetime for a tapestry of beauty to unfold where life is concerned. But I know now. “We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that create something.” ~ Sandra Day O’Connor ...
My companion and friend departed this world yesterday. She was not a human - but a cat. Nothing in my life had ever prepared me for this kind of love or loss. I’m writing this as a tribute/memorial to her as much as to help myself to deal with my feelings around losing her. [caption id=“attachment_30” align=“alignnone” width=“525”] ”Cats come into your house to teach you about affection, they leave to teach you about the loss.”~Jules Verne[/caption] ...
November 13th is World Kindness Day. I wasn’t aware of this until just recently when a friend mentioned it to me. She said she liked my last blog post and could she make a suggestion for another. I said what would that be and she said, “you could write one for World Kindness Day.” What a wonderful idea to have a day set aside to remind us about practicing kindness. ...