How you prove your love to yourself? If another was to know exactly how you treat yourself would they think…there is a person in love? This is the question I ask myself when I think of how I treat myself. And this is the answer I have discovered. Let us, borrowing from the words of…
When I was a boy and something bad would happen my mother would say to me, “into every life a little rain must fall”. Now, living in Vancouver I would have to say that I have become very acquainted with rain. What my mother did not include, so I think I will, is, “and into every life…
Are you searching for heaven on earth or is your life a living hell? Either way it is pretty clear that we get what we believe. In fact, the funniest thing is that one person’s version of a living hell (for example my mother jumping out of a plane with a parachute) could be another’s…
There is a healing energy in the universe. It is the same energy that created the stars, our solar system, the Earth and all life. It has been called by many names by many philosophers over the years of human conscious living, but for today I will simply call it the divine energy of creation and,…
The past couple of days I have been with my sister. She is not a blood relative and I do have two brothers but I also have a sister without any genetic material shared between us. We have been friends for 30 years and over the past couple of days we wandered around, ate, laughed,…
Today I continue my journey with my husband in Barcelona. We were in the subway and witnessed a pick-pocket steal the wallet of a woman on the Metro. The husband of the woman who lost her wallet let the thief off the train without hassle and immediately called the police. How interesting he thought the…
What is it you would change about your favourite religion given the chance to do so? What an interesting question this is to me. I was raised in the tradition of christianity and it took me nearly 3 decades to discover that it did not reflect my real beliefs and certainly was not a good…
Lately I have been around the proverbial mulberry bush with a matter concerning a very dear friend of mine. The issue is that it is difficult to ascribe intentions to individual members of his family and the result is their behaviour is at least perplexing and at most vile. So in keeping with my philosophy…
My husband shared with me a song this morning that is popular in Spanish. The title is Jesus is a verb and not substantive. Now that does not translate all that well into english. When he first gave me all the words in english using a translator I found the meaning was slightly obscured and…
Context is everything. When you look at the photo do you see a relaxed woman communing with nature or do you see the straining neck muscles of a woman holding a pose that is uncomfortable so the photographer can capture a moment in time? No matter what you see in the photo, it is valid,…