Welcome to The Shift

March 7, 2011

photo credit: Ed Siasoco (aka SC Fiasco) I haven’t posted as much as I’d like to over the last month, but I won’t use conventional excuses like “I’ve been traveling” or “I’ve been busy”.  While both are true, they’re not the main reason. The main reason for not blogging more often is that I’ve been [...]

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How Wide is Your Lens?

February 6, 2011

photo credit: Jules LaVerne 2011 is shaping up to be a year of rapid, no-nonsense “shifting into gear”.  For many people – self included – we’re close to completing the transition through the gears which has defined the past few years.  I don’t know about you, but I’m intending to enter a more stable place [...]

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2011: Shifting Us Into Alignment

January 31, 2011

photo credit: timsnell While 2010 ended with a whimper for me (and for the most part I was glad to see it go), 2011 is starting off with a bang.  There’s “no rest for the wicked” as the saying goes. Not that I’m wicked (truly, I’m not) but we all have negative habits, conditioning or [...]

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving

December 21, 2010

photo credit: Rusty Boxcars Three years ago when my daughter was in her final year of elementary school I wrote the story below.  Much to my surprise, it holds true today. Yes, my daughter is a rare eighth grader who still believes in Santa Claus.  Despite the naysayers at school, you see, she has proof [...]

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When You Think the Journey’s Over: Fear and Insights from the Scariest Flight of My Life

December 12, 2010

photo credit: mrhayata The truth in life is that we probably have countless brushes with death every day that we never know about.  Just crossing a busy city street or shuttling the kids to school, one careless driver more or less at exactly the right moment and your number could be up. There’s nothing, however, [...]

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The Journey Is the Destination

December 7, 2010

photo credit: jerseytourism It’s the end of the journey through another year, December in the northern hemisphere where I live.  I love this month not for the holiday lights, shorter days and colder weather, but because things slow down for once.  Largely thanks to the cluster of December holidays, the pace lets up, and there [...]

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Does Every Silver Lining Need a Cloud?

November 29, 2010

photo credit: BruceTurner After recently reading this post by Empowered Soul Andrea Hess, I’ve been reflecting on just how prevalent our sense of deservedness figures into getting what we want.  It’s as if we feel the need to qualify our desires almost before we can admit having them, and certainly before allowing ourselves to pursue [...]

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Open Up and Say “Om”

November 23, 2010

photo credit: AlicePopkorn Hi, Karen here. While I’m off on a new accidental adventure in Barcelona Spain I invited my good friend Penelope Love to submit the following guest post. I know you’ll adore her story as much as I do. Happy Thanksgiving US readers! My first intimate encounter with an Eastern medical doctor occurred [...]

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Confessions of a Reluctant Mother and the Bitter Sweetness of Thirteen

November 16, 2010

I have to confess something few people know.  For most of my daughter’s life I’ve been a reluctant mother. It’s not that I got pregnant as a teenager, knocked-up after a wild night of debauchery, or stumbled into any of the typical, tragic unexpected motherhood situations so popularized in the tabloid news.  I was “raised [...]

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You Don’t Have to Analyze the Garbage Before You Throw It Out

November 9, 2010

photo credit: kodomut Few of us make it through life with a light load.  At some point, we intentionally or unintentionally become hoarders. I don’t necessarily mean hoarders of physical stuff, although that can be part of it. Anything that manifests in physical form has emotional, mental and spiritual components behind the scenes.  Even if [...]

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