A dear friend sent me a beautiful large bouquet of mixed flowers for my birthday two weeks ago. As the blooms began to die off, I removed them one by one. The dwindling bouquet continued to delight me until garbage day arrived and I reluctantly realized it was probably...
Unconditional
What if I came to this planet called Earth as the unconditional love few were able to receive? Like Jesus. Like Buddha. Two hemispheres of the same Mind in the possibility of a world without boundaries where all men and women are kind. All of us enter with the...
Honest Reflection
I have not always been nice to myself. I have taken myself for granted. I have forgotten my own beauty. I have sold myself short. I have sabotaged. I have compared and deemed myself less than. I have judged and made myself better than. I have lacked confidence. I...
The Power Within
What if I do not always have to know “why?” something happens and just accept this is where I find myself and if I do not like it, what can or will I do to change my real-ity into re-all-it-y? The mind likes to suffer from analysis paralysis. What...
A World of Disposable People
There is nothing like interactions with other people to give one a “reality check” if we take the time to pause and reflect on our exchanges, examine the roles we play and allow the potential for grace to exist in any moment if we are open to truly receiving...
Honoring Mother’s Day
Wishing you and yours a love and peace filled Mother’s Day weekend. We each have our own individual memories and definitions of the term “mother”. My definition of a Mother is one who creates a feeling of being unconditionally loved and accepted, an unbreakable bond of connection, and a...
Confessions of a Senior Class Trip
The year was 1988 and I won the lotto. Well, for a newly turned 18 year old it was like winning the lotto after my name was drawn as one of a limited number of high school seniors able to participate in a multi-school class trip from Cedar Rapids,...
Life is a Conscious Action
Why do we create life to be more complex and less fulfilling than the greatest potential within ourselves? Why allow fear to rob one second of conscious contribution while we are breathing upon the Earth? Empowerment is an inside job, thought in the mind and experienced through the heart....
An Unexpected Good Bye
11 years ago today was the last time I spoke to Dave, the man I married. He made the decision to end his life that day and life as I knew it was turned upside down and inside out. Most days it feels like a lifetime ago, and on...
2016 Post Election Speech
If I held the world stage as a political leader, and as my own speech writer, here is what I would say to the masses… A foundation built on false securities is no foundation at all. A wall built of “I’m right and you are (fill in the blank)”...