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I hope you enjoy reading the “musings” that have come to me to share with you. I don’t see myself as a writer and yet these stories come and won’t leave me alone until they get written. If one or more of these “musings” speak to you I would love to hear from you about [...]
read more >>Sage on the Stage or Guide on the Side
Several years ago during a workshop for leaders I heard a saying that, as a leader, you could be either a “sage on the stage” or a “guide on the side.” I contemplated what that would be like in my role as a professional facilitator, working with groups and leaders in resolving conflicts and planning [...]
read more >>Who Am I? Tennis Racquet to Cloud
Click here for a PDF Version of the Musing I am the bird, I am the tree The earth and sky and I feel free No time, no after, no before We all are one, I am no more by Ellen – Plum Village 1998 Have you ever tried to answer the question, “Who am [...]
read more >>Moving, Trusting and Integrity
I have moved again. Yes, it’s true. At least five moves in the past four years and that doesn’t count the year that I was “homeless” during that time. Every move has brought amazing gifts. This time I moved just 11 miles north of where I had been living. And while it was only an [...]
read more >>I Don’t Want Her To Be My Mother
Mother’s Day is coming up soon and I thought that the greatest gift I could give myself and my mother, even though she died a couple of years ago, would be to do another Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet on her. Having done a gazillion (at least) Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheets on my mother over the years, I was curious [...]
read more >>Sitting in the Fire of Truth
I hear myself and others say, “I want to know the truth!” I have been convinced, at times, that this is true. I have really believed this! THEN I bump up against a very strongly held belief, one that threatens my sense of security and who I think I am. It is then that I [...]
read more >>Creativity, Patience and Doll Clothes
Like most everyone, I grew up believing what other people said to me or believing some assumption I had about what they said. I grew up believing, among other things, that I was impatient and not at all creative. I lived my life as though both were true. And if you were to talk to [...]
read more >>Small Shards of Glass
Every time we talk my mother tells me to take care of myself. I have found myself saying that very thing to others over the years. In the past I thought that getting a massage, buying myself something, taking a long leisurely bath or eating some decadent chocolate thing was “taking care of myself”. I [...]
read more >>Learning to Say YES
I used live in Colorado and loved riding my road bike during the warmer months. While out riding one of my favorite routes I encountered a road that had been recently chip sealed – small crushed gravel is laid on a layer of tar that eventually gets packed down. On a road bike it can [...]
read more >>Beautiful Noise
I hate motorcycles. Not the seething kind of hate but hate nonetheless. They make too much noise. I especially hate Harleys. They make more noise and supposedly people like it that way. The louder the better, I’ve heard. I’ve never been able to figure that out. I prefer bicycles. On a bicycle I can hear [...]
read more >>Do You Really Want to Know the Truth?
Like many children, I grew up believing in Santa Claus. I delighted in the story and the mystery of the man in the red suit who could visit everyone’s home in course of one wintery evening. I liked living with the illusion. Even when my friends told me otherwise, even when the evidence was all [...]
read more >>Dance of Perfection
In February I hosted a retreat in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with an amazing group of women. During our time together we shared, we laughed, we cried, and we discovered how we try to manipulate others for their love, approval and appreciation. We questioned our strongly held beliefs, had conversations that opened our minds [...]
read more >>It IS a Friendly Universe
Recently Life gifted me with a series of circumstances that has taken me on a most amazing internal journey. As I look back I can see where it actually began several months ago. Some of the more exciting moments occurred during the past few months. As an observer of my experience I have been struck [...]
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