The Owl In South Central
In 1990, I read a story in The New York Times about a young gang-banger who turned his back on an opposing gang knowing he would be shot. Though I don’t remember the full story, I do remember that his gang had been in the other’s territory by mistake. When a car full of that […]
PANDORA
The Legacy Tree people sent me an email the other day. They were sure they would be able to identify my birth mother and father and siblings and have the time to do a more comprehensive biological search. It triggered dread and sadness. What if I don’t like my biological people? What if I don’t […]
WHO AM I?
WHO AM I? It’s a silly question for someone at my age. I am a healthy, physically active and fit 73-year-old woman. I have the energy and stamina of a 60-year-old. I have two daughters who are both healthy. I have three grandsons. One who is afraid to start his life, another who isn’t and […]
MY GRIZZLY BEAR
The confluence of creeks and ocean were roiling with salmon. It was fun standing in muck boots in the middle of the creeks as the salmon encircled the boots. I might have been able to catch one with my hands if I had non-slip gloves. The sun was setting in the warm Alaska wilderness night. […]
It can be a spiritual journey
New health/metaphyscial philosophies suggest that illness and disease are stuck energy within the bodies energy system. We can load up on the prescribed drugs and hope for the best, or we can take the drugs and use the illness or disease as an exploration into where and why the energy is stuck. It can be […]
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 […]