Ordinary As a Wheelbarrow Full of Potatoes

You would think that reflecting on Mother’s Day would be about my Mom. For some reason this Mother’s Day was filled with thoughts of my Dad. His birthday is May 11th and while it doesn’t always fall on Mother’s Day it did the year he was born and it did this year. He was also…

The Three R’s of Intuition

Expect to Be In the Flow of Life I think many people live in awe of the intuitive experience. I do. When it happens it’s an amazing sensation and brings joy, wonder and excitement to life. “You don’t still believe in coincidence?” my husband will tease. Speaking with friends this weekend we were talking about…

Planting the Seeds of Peace

Kids need gardens more than they need iPads. Today’s Joyous Living Journal states that “It’s through simple awareness and subtle tweaks to behaviors that will make a difference, impacting all of us sharing this earth. When you don’t know better, you can’t act better.” I feel far more comfortable calling for complete revolution. I feel…

I Release and I Let Go

Release and Tend Your Garden Mindfully Butterflies have a lot to teach us about change. My piano teacher used to tell me that butterflies were a sign of hope. Metamorphosis is no mild or gentle thing. Those catepillars liquify into a goopy mess before they are recontructed into a butterfly. We joined the Panhe celebration…

Are Your Choices Magical or Mundane?

Clear the mists around your Avalon. I remember reading “The Mists of Avalon” over winter break. My roomates were home with their families and I had the apartment to myself. While the snow fell outside I was warm and toasty eating bread smeared with butter and honey just like in my book on the mystical…

Spirit Prevails In San Clemente

Remembering Fukushima We send loving blessings to our Japanese friends and all those suffering from Fukushima.  We honor their suffering as sacred fuel to stop the nuclear insanity worldwide. ~ Mary Beth Brangan In today’s entry in our “Joyous Living Journal” it states, Some of the issues facing humanity today are beyond human means for solution.…