Soon I will turn 47 years old–as in next Thursday. What a celebration. Against all odds my life span has made a run over more than a few decades. The simple joy is my domain these days. How grateful I feel to reflect on many close calls in behavior–ones that could have gone either way [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Growing Up Step by Step
January 26, 2012
The Art of Focusing
January 17, 2012
I wonder if we stereotype children for having a hyper attention span that annoys to the high heavens. Since I have come down with a fever achey body runny nose the last few days, I tried for some extra sleep this morning while a friend watched Darien at home here. Nothing doing because he tends [...]
Failure Club
January 16, 2012
How else to succeed besides failure? This last week helped me witness apparent failure and I am damn happy for that. For the sake of emotional safety, I have often created false connections to people–or no connection at all. Yet this changes daily as my capacity to live feeling open and vulnerable is now simply [...]
A Day in the Life
January 3, 2012
Too tempted by a new pair of crystal clear Sony headphones, I cued up a CBS television show that I admire, A Gifted Man. The storyline gently conflicts an ambitious Manhattan brain surgeon with his previous life while married to a doctor working at a low income clinic in rural Alaska. One day his ex-wife [...]
New Year’s Day 2012
January 2, 2012
Truly strange how life cajoles us all to change. What we will do to not change. The resistance! This last year has simply been a shift in perspective creating incremental emotional change over the last twelve months. I thought I had changed, but when a woman I know on the periphery returned to live in [...]
