Something that just really hit me over the past few days is the interesting ways in which we honor people. It’s been on my mind a bit due to the passing of Leonard Nimoy. He was an amazing man in so many ways including being Spock, being a great director, a talented photographer, a genuinely…
Most of us have experienced nosiness. People who are overly interested in us, in the minutia of our lives, who need to know even though they really don’t need to know. It’s worse if they feel the need to comment on what they think they need to know. 😛 The opposite to nosiness isn’t good…
It’s great to be able to see the big picture and to look at all the possible outcomes of taking this action or that. It’s a great way to make a plan of action, but looking at all the components and possibilities and putting things together from the best of all of it. Sometimes this…
The character of Spock was a family friend long before I was born. My mother and I have been Trekkers before the term was coined. A lot can and will be said about this amazing, intelligent, loving human being. I like how Ms. Heffernan of the NY Times has written about him. Her article is…
…fabulous for being lived in. 😉 I’m currently reading The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven, Renewing Your Life on Earth by Tamar Frankiel and I love how she speaks about this universal truth: All of us have the gifts we need to reflect the image of God, each in our own unique…
A client’s comment reminded me of this recently. They said their mother had died when they were between 3-4 years old and so they didn’t have that experience of having a mom in their lives. They had a wicked-stepmonster (my word) who was a defining presence in their life, but not in a good way. …
It’s very much true that we should actually listen to our emotions, hear what they have to say, and weigh that wisdom with the other voices going on inside us to find our soul’s path. Sometimes that means doing what we feel like doing in the moment because that freedom allows us to unfold, sometimes…
There are two categories of emotions: the kinds we want and the kinds we don’t. We treat them like pets. If they behave exactly like we want and are cute and cuddly we reward and pamper them. If they don’t behave we chastise them and work to correct them or we decide we want nothing…
It’s funny to me how over centuries we’ve come to a conclusion culturally that there is wisdom in the soul and that the body is the mechanism by which the soul gets around, like a car or a scooter or something. It treated like a tool or a mechanism or a machine which breaks down…
Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power by Rita Nakashima Brock While feminists are not naïve about human evil and suffering, we understand sin as historically and socially produced, which requires us to take responsibility for understanding and stopping oppression and suffering. I believe understanding sin as damage enhances responsibility and healing instead of…