Yesterday was graduation day. I cheered as my niece received her 8th grade promotion and teared watching my nephew receive his high school diploma. So proud of both of them! It was a great and emotional day filled with special moments and wonderful speeches. The valedictorian at my nephew's graduation gave a funny and moving speech. She had the entire football stadium laughing with jokes about her mixed heritage - her mother is Mexican and her father is Jewish. She apologized to everyone unable to find a seat because her mother had her entire side of the family seated in the home-side … [Read more...]
Sharing My Struggles
I am distraught today over an email I received from a member of my support group. Here is where my writing about this gets sticky. How much can I share and still honor her privacy? I guess I can just say that she is someone I reached out to individually because she was interested in getting involved in something I am doing and reaping great health benefits from, and now the whole thing has blown up in my face. I am just stunned at how my support and good intentions are now being twisted into such ugliness. It goes back to The Law of Detatchment and the lesson I learned there - "Today I … [Read more...]
It’s Day 30 of My 30-in-30 Writing Assignment!
I did it! I made it through my self-imposed 30-in-30 writing assignment. Wow, what a roller coaster it has been. I really learned a lot about what I am capable of and a little about over-doing it. Before sitting down today to write this post I looked back over the previous 29 and was actually impressed with the quality of what I put out there, even on the days when the last thing I wanted to do was to sit at my computer and write. I thought I would do a little recap of the posts and my health and frame of mind the day I wrote them. My Favorite Posts from the Last 30 Days I Do Not Want to … [Read more...]
Take a Minute and Pause
Living in San Diego County, I am surrounded by the great men and women who protect our country; Camp Pendleton to the north, MCAS Miramar and NAS North Island to the south, to name just a of few of the local military facilities. Most times as I am driving around this beautiful county I am not thinking about the freedom I am afforded by our military. I am instead thinking about how beautiful a day it is and how lucky I am to live here. And even though Memorial Day is by rights a somber holiday, it has also become the day we celebrate the start of summer with bbq's and bonfires on the beach, and … [Read more...]
The Law of Detachment
In his book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra writes this about law number six, The Law of Detachment: The Law of Detachment says that in order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn’t mean you give up the intention to create your desire. You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results. I am sharing this with you to explain an epiphany I had last week while attending an introduction to meditation class at The Chopra Center. I scheduled the event as a … [Read more...]