35th Birthday
This year marked the passing of my 35 years of existence on this little blue ball. It’s been a wild ride, tha’ts for sure. I’ve been experiencing pangs around this one. Pangs of the not-married, don’t-have-children, haven’t-opened-my-business variety. I feel the distinctive loss of frailty. The loss of ignorance. If I... [Read more...]
Lovers of the past
This weather has me drifting back. To old loves.. to how we discovered the triumph of love in each other.. how time and differences kept us from being together.. the eventual sadness of parting… and back around again to friendship. The sweet sharp tang of calling up and saying “Hey~ I thought about you the other day” and to feel their... [Read more...]
Gratitude & Manifestions
I landed at the Oakland airport, on a sunny day in 1997. My mom came to rescue me from a dead end situation in Seattle, and as we drove back to her place in Napa, we started talking about manifestion. and it’s link to the force of gratitude. From this one spark of conversation, came a new way of thinking that changed my life, forever. I tried... [Read more...]
There IS a “Try”
“Do or do not. There is no try.” Ever since that damned Muppet, poor “try” has gotten a bad rap. I happen to like “trying” and I’ll tell you why. I can certainly understand where the Yoda sentiment came from. Too often we are told by people “I’ll try”, when what they really mean is... [Read more...]
The Automatic Millionaire
I’ve been reading this amazing book called the Automatic Millionaire. It starts with two principles-Pay yourself First, and Make it Automatic. We talked before about the emotional impact that money can have on our satisfaction, our security, and our sense of empowerment. If you were raised like I was, it was with the sense that Uncle Sam takes... [Read more...]
