Hallelujah
Until May 29th, I thought I had it all handled. I prided myself on being able to handle stress. I achieved my successes on my own. I didn’t marry money or inherit it, I made it. I maintained my integrity through a 35-year career. I made choices that were contrary to becoming successful in […]
What a Spring!!!!!
When something goes deeply wrong, the realization it forces is inevitably learned at the grave of loss. John O’Donohue What a spring. On my journey to save my tooth (which I did), I ended up with community acquired pneumonia and Atrial Fibrillation. This is my take on it, not the medical communities: it was a […]
Quan Yin – Mercy, Forgiveness, Compassion, Love
I lie in bed in the mornings, awakened by the early spring light, thinking about faith and grace – not unusual I suppose for my age. I have had the good fortune to bear witness to friends and acquaintances lives over a forty-year period. It’s most striking with people I haven’t seen for a while […]
MASTER ZHANG
I was sick. I had a light case of pneumonia which is an oxymoron as I felt like hell had taken over my body; yet, I had waited almost five years to see Master Zhang and I wasn’t going to let hell hold me back. Getting to LA was another hell. The drive to Sacramento […]
BEYOND
Every morning for many years, after I make my coffee and feed the dogs, I turn on my iPad and read these papers or periodicals: NY Times, Washington Post, HuffPo, The Intercept, Politico, BuzzFeed news, Breitbart, Pro Publica, Slate, Vox and more. And then there are the monthly’s: The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Time Magazine and […]
Tree of Life
In January or February, I am changing the focus of my blog. My remaining clients have asked me to stay as long as I can. I feel a responsibility to one particular client as she is becoming a lone voice in the political wilderness for fact-based reporting and truth rather than blithering punditry and second-guessing. […]
Can Women Save the World?
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is […]
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Shocking, unbelievable – tick, tock, tick, tock. Today it happened. It crept into my bones and joints a while ago creating extra attention to fingers and knees in the mornings but I denied the implications. Everyone who isn’t 70 says “oh, it’s just a number. You look great.” Maybe so – but I really don’t […]
ICELAND
It was late, nine-thirty pm east coast time. In my mind, it should have been dusk if not dark but below me, glowing like mid-day, the icy contours of Greenland awed me. Large expanses of white gave way to melting glaciers creating rivers heavy-laden with icebergs. I have the pictures to prove it but they […]
Our Class – Reimagined!
Einstein wondered “what if I rode a beam of light?” His “what if” changed how we perceive our world. Our class ranging in ages from 15 to 67 inhabited a world of metaphors and “what if’s” for three days and experienced how they could reimagine their world by understanding themselves a bit better. Tim and […]
My updated blog – please visit
I have updated the blog itwasanowl.com. It is interactive. I invite everyone to respond to what I may write. I encourage you to subscribe. You won’t be inundated because my brain operates only when inspired and inspiration happens maybe once a month sometimes 2 or 3 times a month but that is rare. I have […]
It Was An Owl
It happened in Westwood, California in 1987– The Land of Oz, the place of imagination and big dreams. The kids were almost grown. Katie was a horrendous teenager that I wanted to disown until she turned thirty. Heather was struggling with the shallowness and mindlessness of the LA kids, and the lifestyle those vapid personalities […]
CHANGE IS GOOD
I am going to re-do the blog site. It will still be itwasanowl. I noticed however that younger people are beginning to “like” the site. I reread some of the posts and realized it’s not just for “old farts.” The class that Tim and I will be doing together this summer is about recreating one’s […]
I Flunked My CASA Interview
I have all the qualifications necessary to be an outstanding CASA advocate. I participate professionally in advocating for people who believe that truth and fact are moral imperatives. I have been a single mother, I have been completely broke wondering how I would support my kids, I am a woman who made her way through […]
SILENCE
I am witnessing the devolution of democracy. People that I have known and liked burying their heads in Breitbart type news. A woman I had met at a seminar and with whom I had shared intimate stories shares on Facebook her undying belief that Huma Abedin is a terrorist and Hillary Clinton actually […]
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS
I posted an article on FB from the Washington Post about Koch Brothers who were calling in people to discuss how to tackle the growing authoritarianism in the presidency and the Republican Party. I was fascinated. Progressives are also calling in people to discuss how to tackle the growing authoritarianism in the presidency and Republican […]
January 21, 2017 & December 7, 1941
What happened yesterday? In Ashland, Oregon, Washington, DC; New York, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, London, Paris, Berlin, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Austin and so many more small towns around this country and the world. What happened? I use a reference from the 1940’s when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. The Emporer […]
We are Revolutionaries
We are revolutionaries for a new time. We are revolutionaries without weapons, without bullets and without ancient grudges that lead to war. We are revolutionaries in a new paradigm, a new way to be that recognizes and honors the interdependence of all beings on earth. Revolution demands action and our revolution must be grounded in […]