THE EXAMINED LIFE
Funneling around in my brain since November of 2018, I was looking at how to proceed into 2019. I could no longer do it as I had for the last sixty or so years. I have finished with the building and crafting of a life and a career. I have achieved goals. I raised a […]
HAVING IT ALL
I have been greatly disturbed by Facebook or rather the executives at Facebook: Zuckerberg an entitled brat who has no business running a company and his equally entitled Harvard alum, Sheryl Sandberg. It’s with Sandberg that I have the major issue. She wrote a book “Lean In” that garnered her lots […]
HAUDENOSAUNEE THANKSGIVING ADDRESS
Ina Lee sent this out by email and I thought it was so beautiful I wanted to share. Greetings to the Natural World The People Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all […]
JOY
I am grateful that people are liking the meanderings of this almost old “broad.” We humans are collectively entwined or that’s what the quantum world is telling us. We have never been more entwined than in this divisive national experiment called Trump. Even other countries are pulled into the orbit of demagogues like Trump shaping […]
Wabi-Sabi
My recent A-fib event was an abrupt edge that my speeding body encountered on its way into the last third of my life. This particular third is my Wabi-Sabi. Wabi-Sabi is imperfection, brokenness, age and a disheveled appearance that the Japanese consider essential for beauty. I thought I had the answer. It was […]
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 […]