Do you ever have the feeling that you are alone in the world? Everyone else is off having some party to which you weren’t invited? They are all more successful than you, have more friends, more fun, more everything? Or, do you sometimes sit alone and imagine millions of other people sitting alone too? Do you wish you could somehow … Read More
Gratitude, Attitude and a cat
Confession: sometimes I find writing about gratitude really hard. To be even more specific, sometimes I find writing posts for the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop really hard. With the Thankful hop, the difficulty is often logistical – because it’s the weekend and I’m busy doing weekendy things with my family or with friends. Other times though, the things … Read More
Self-compassion, grief, gratitude and helping others
On Saturday morning a week ago, I logged onto Facebook and saw that our group for 1000 Voices For Compassion had surpassed its target. We had 1002 people on board to write about compassion on February 20th. (If you haven’t joined up already, just click the link – we always welcome more!) I felt grateful, and full of excitement at … Read More
Silver Linings Thanks-Book
This week there has been another birthday and a lot of other stuff. Much of it has not been what I’d choose, but there are silver linings – at least in most things. And whatever life gives to us, however much we might fight it or wish it different, life goes on and the sun comes up each day (even … Read More
Chocolate Cake For Breakfast. Thank You
I just ate chocolate cake for breakfast. Yum. Following advice from a herbalist, I am on a no-refined carbs, no dairy diet just now because of a health issue. I haven’t broken that diet. My 14-year-old daughter made cupcakes with Rapadura Sugar (which is the whole cane) and whole wheat flower. (Darned autocorrect! I have never once baked a marigold … Read More
How Writing Aids Understanding
In my post for last weekend’s hop, I wrote briefly that I had found relief and release on a long-standing issue. If you have read either of my posts How I Got Drawn In or A Minister’s Son, then you will have some idea what that issue was. I expect these to be the first of five posts in this … Read More
Burning with Thanks (And The Dress revealed.)
On Sunday I was grateful for vinegar and soda. Here’s why. I put dates in a pan with water and left them to cook. The plan was to use them to sweeten apple crumble. The rest of the dinner was pretty much ready since we were having leftovers. So I went out of the kitchen (first mistake) and into the … Read More
Thank You For the Days: Precious Memories of 2013
The last days of any year are traditionally a time of reflection, and so this post is. For me, this year is overshadowed by the death of my deeply loved father and wonderful aunt, so writing this refection was never going to be easy. I didn’t even get to the end of the first sentence without some tears. I will … Read More
10 Brilliant Self-Help Books
These ten books have guided me from feeling like a total failure who had no idea how to cope with life, to where I am today. Where exactly that is is hard to say, and varies day to day and moment to moment. Mostly it’s content with life and able to see the silver lining. Mostly it’s feeling love and compassion … Read More
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