The last few days have been hectic ones in my house as we prepared for our first blending of Bob’s family and mine — from brunch through dinner. I’m utterly heart blasted by the love and care everyone gave to each other — from my daughter Lilly making a slide show with pictures of everybody in our “old” and […]

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For the last few weeks, I’ve been sending out resurrected bits from the Daily Dollop, which I published um, daily, a few years back. These are little dollops (doh) of grounding kindness, mindful questions from The Life Organizer and reminders to rrrreeelax.
(You do subscribe to the newsletter, right? It’s different than the blog - doh)
Anyhoo, one of […]

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Start a diet.
2
Try to be everything to everybody at all times.
3
Glue glitter on everything. Keep getting little pieces in your eye, especially while driving in holiday traffic.
4
Visit a mall. Then a big box store. Then go back to the mall for something you forgot. Be sure and grab something to eat in the food […]

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I got sick on Thanksgiving. Icky sick. And then felt yucky all weekend and until, really, Friday.
Bob, the beloved boyfriend, pointed out, lovingly, as he is wont to do, that I don’t like to admit I’m sick. He is, yet again, right.
I don’t like to admit I’m sick because it doesn’t fit my picture of myself — I’m strong! […]

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I like to be 12 on my birthday. I like attention, presents, and insisting that I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to. I regress, unabashadedly.
But not this year. This year I seem to want to do nothing, see nobody, hardly even talk on the phone when friends call to say Happy […]

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Hey, I love gratitude as much as the next self-help writer…. Only… I didn’t used to.
I used to not get the whole gratitude rap.  Trying to be grateful always felt strained to me, forced and pious. Set my teeth on edge. As in I should be grateful. Cue the angels. (Have I mentioned I’m not so […]

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Let me say right at the beginning this is an experiment.  I may not want to do it every week. I may forget. Nobody may play.

And that’s okay.
Choosing Your Life Monday is an invitation to name what pattern you will lovingly notice this week.
As you may know from this post I recently set a BFHG and it’s […]

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I can faintly hear a man singing The Star Spangled Banner. It’s coming from the middle school across the street. I find myself crying. I’ve been doing that a lot these last few days. I’m torn and suffused by the truth that absolutely nothing stays the same, pierced by the truth that everything is […]

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I’m wondering and thinking and experimenting with this idea of desire as separate from mood. It continues to excite and free me… and then that niggely nasty word should comes creeping in the door… and confuses me a tad…
I should make this retreat deeper and richer.
I should be meditating more, asking for guidance more (or at […]

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I have been chewing on the latest issue of my friend’s Michael Neill’s ezine - okay, not literally chewing - because it may help you if you’ve read my last two books and because I’m having such a hard time with this so-called retreat I’m in the midst of.
A bit from Michael’s newsletter:
“In ‘You Can Have […]

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