I would like to share with you what I’ve been feeling now that my mother has passed away. I have had the story that I need to be ‘strong’ for my family. It’s been many years that I have not allowed myself to freely show fear, joy, anger, excitement, disappointment, grief – forget being vulnerable! […]
“Peace I leave you, My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid”. John 14:27 This was my mother’s possibility for the world. After she quoted these words last Saturday, I saw her world transform. People came […]
Today I received a text message from a friend of mine. She needed some information from me and i’m dealing with my mother’s passing in Hospice, I have been unavailable for her a few days. She wrote “Big Love to you and your family. Hesitating to intrude, but can we talk…” Wow this left me […]
So regarding my promise to David. I promised David that I would get to see his Descanso for Virginia. I am in Florida & the Descanso is in Arizona. The first thought was ” how am I going to get there to see his Descanso?” So I figured I can ask somebody there to do […]
Over the next three months David & I communicated via email. He expressed his love for his daughter & the heartache it was to lose her. He expressed the sorrow, the loneliness & his hopes for the memory of Virginia. I got to know David a little more during those emails. And I got to […]
I just received an email from a friend, Donna. She sent me Superchick’s “We Live” (MP3) song – this is such a great song! The part that is most impactful is: The weather in life outside is stormingBut what would it take for the clouds to breakFor us to realize each day is a gift […]
I just read this great story :: Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, “I love you and I wish you enough.” The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together […]
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past, and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without. A silent space of intense presence arises both in you and around you. You dissolve discord, heal pain, dispel unconsciousness–without doing anything–simply by […]
Man has built in himself images as a fence of security – religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the cause of our problems, for they divide man from man. –Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986, Indian Philosopher) Again […]
In doing some more research about other roadside memorials out there, I came across a news story from Chattanooga, TN. I’ll condense it to the following: The debate over a roadside memorial continues in Hixson… The families of three young women, killed in a a car wreck… set up a memorial…neighbors keep taking it down… […]
