I am still luxuriating in Thanksgiving mode and I love it!! Karen Drucker’s song “I am so blessed” keeps running through my head. For those of you who haven’t heard it, it’s a simple song: I am so blessed, I am so blessed. I am so grateful for all that I have. I am so blessed, I…
Fill in your favourite deity, person, place or thing. Gratitude is an attitude and we choose our attitude. No matter how much we think we may not be in control of our feelings we are always in control of our choices. And today, I choose to celebrate life with an attitude of gratitude. I am…
When the autumn leaves begin to fall, my desire to embody their color arises. The artists palette which appears while driving into or out of the city inspires me to pause and paint a still life within my sometimes over active mind. The landscape calls out for me to create a vivid picture of what…
One of the things I’ve noticed as I talk with people is that changes are happening in many people’s lives. Some changes are manifesting painfully, and some with excitement. Each story I heard was a microcosmic view of the changes that are happening in our world. Years ago, I was sitting in a class where a question…
An attitude of gratitude pays off in the highest from of dividends and the great news is, they are tax free! Sometimes I find it a challenge to say thank you for everything that is in my life. I mean really, do I have to say thank you when I am feeling fear? Is it…
Life sometimes can appear to carry us away on the tradewinds. The allure of the future. The push and pull of our fantasies can conspire to take us out of the moment. Do not be fooled. If we do not live in this moment, what makes us think we will present for the next one?…
Thank you for this day Spirit, thank you for this day. This wonderful, glorious, beautiful day. Thank you for this day! These lyrics were a song I have sung many times based on the music of Karen Drucker. I often find it easier to give thanks on a beautiful sunny day with a blue sky…
Today is the start of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games here in Vancouver and there is much to celebrate. It is wonderful that humans are able to come together to play. Sport is play and the Olympics bring all the people who like to play together and the rest of us watch them do it.…
One of the most powerful words in the english language is “thank you”. To truly appreciate another for something they have done or given to us and to let them know directly is one of the most important communications we can have. Recently a young man I had met several years ago wrote to me…