December 18, 2017 While waiting for my grandson’s household to stir I am making good on my New Story of being spontaneously creative and doing Forgivenesswalks work by reading through draft blogposts. I’m developing a habit of posting ideas, quotes, and undeveloped dramas as drafts. I just found one that delights me. It was an …
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Kindness Noticed
December 18, 2017 I walked 1.5 miles between my hosts’ house and my grandson’s house. Besides allowing myself to feel all my feelings while walking past my former family home, I noticed kindness bestowed by people I don’t know. A driver stopped, waited, then backed up. A woman popped her head out saying, “Oh sorry! …
Personal Forgivenesswalk
December 18, 2017 I admit, I didn’t publish yesterday’s post until today after sleeping on it. I was not willing to be that vulnerable, to show up stuck in my S.T.O.R.Y. (Sustained Tale Of Repressed Yearning). Well, as journeys through a Radical Forgiveness transformation go, I have moved another step along and can now recognize …
Today’s Beliefs
December 17, 2017 My role in my family is unclear. I’m making this up as I go. I am a lone grandmother. I miss John Reiter just because he should be with me because we were married. I miss the security of our former finances. We could be traveling and visiting grandchildren as retirees. But …
New Chapter
June 1, 2017 Together again. I perceive that my words are often upsetting, bothersome, misconstrued, prying, or other versions of disconnecting. Back together again. My perception is that it’s important to say as little as possible about a lot of things! Plans, politics, feelings, money, perspectives, hyperbole. Is it possible to be freely expressive without …
Which Relationships
December 16, 2017 I woke up even before my grandson today realizing that my entire life now could be focused on nurturing select relationships – grandkids, adult children, siblings, not to mention my own mom and my own intimate partner. Doing the math, that’s 2+3+9+1+1 = 16! Then there are the in-laws of siblings, which …
Imperfection Accepted
December 15, 2017 What if I have a project for watching the sunrise every day, or sending a weekly blogpost, or painting every day for thirty days, or walking the Appalachian Trail? What if I miss a day of sun watching or painting or skip a week of posting or take a day off walking? …
Hummingbird Light
December 1, 2017 The hummingbird’s purple only shows when the sun hits it just right. Is there something about my soul that requires light to shine? Is my soul a source of radiance or a reflector of spiritual light? Pondering this as hummingbird flits before me.
Always Time for Radical Forgiveness
December 1, 2017 The more I become open to the ideas that “everything happens for a reason” and “others are a mirror for my beliefs” I see those playing out on my life’s stage constantly! Sometimes I now catch myself while feeling upset or blaming someone realizing that I have the option to reflect on …