September 21, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Guinea Pig C-personal category, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Trusting our guidance Here is the point of my struggle. For many years now, I have followed my inner guidance. Not in all things. (I would be a Saint if this were the case, and I am far from that.) But in the majors. (I now measure success as my ability to follow my...
September 13, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On Forgiveness Borrow the Beloved’s eyes. Look through them and you’ll see the Beloved’s face everywhere. No tiredness, no jaded boredom. “I shall be your eye and your hand and your loving.” Let that happen, and things you have hated will become helpers. A certain...
September 7, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Guinea Pig C-personal category, Personal Development
Beginning of the beginning Well, I made it. It was never really in doubt…but here I am, now in the dawn of my 5th decade. What a journey these last few months have been. On Tuesday, August 31st, 2010, I finally felt like this was the beginning of the beginning....
August 16, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Guinea Pig C-personal category, Personal Development
Becoming a Jedi Knight Following the threads of the last few blogs, in the search to understand and bring to life my feminine, I intuitively picked up one of my reference books, “Goddesses in Everywoman” by Jean Shinoda Bolen. First published in 1984, this book speaks...
July 13, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Three wishes Imagine that we can have three wishes granted, on the one condition that they cannot benefit you directly. They have to be wished on behalf of someone else. What would you wish for? I sat with this question for quite some time. The answer could have been...
June 30, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,...