When Down is Part of Up

blue sky beach birds

Whenever I feel lonely or down, I take some time to drop deeper into the quiet space within. Here I find the soft voice of all that I might be whispering encouragement. Exhilarated Life: Discovering Inner Happiness A long and fulfilled life is not one gentle glide to Nirvana. Life can get jagged at times … Read more

Loving Yourself As You Are

I nourish my body with wholesome foods, my mind with gratitude and forgiveness, and my spirit with loving relationships. All this I do by loving myself as I am. Exhilarated Life: Discovering Inner Happiness Too often we can’t find the courage or discipline to make the simple consistent choices that will change our lives. We … Read more

The Wonder of it All

When I realize that every modern convenience from aspirins to airplanes began with a thought, I am in awe of my own power to create the world I experience. ~Exhilarated Life When I really take in the truth of this, I am made small and gigantic at the same time. It’s a paradox. Nothing in … Read more

Watching Life Pass By from a Port Side Café

Portside Café Aegina

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne Right now I am sitting in a café beside a large church where a bell is sombrely tolling for the dead. The sonorous tone is mournful, but … Read more

Unity Consciousness and the Scent of Coffee

A simple key unlocks a greater reality. Deep into meditation – or so I thought, the scent of coffee wafted from the kitchen, through the hall, under the bedroom door and found it’s way to my calmly inhaling and exhaling nostrils. I heard the familiar tinkling of a spoonful of honey being stirred into the … Read more

The Rightness of Being YOU

Indian Woman dancing

When you are just being you – you can never get it wrong. If you cracked open an acorn to look inside, what would you see? Certainly not a tree, that’s for sure. And yet, within that little capped orb is pure potential. The towering oak is implicit in the acorn, there but unexpressed until the … Read more