Every day we live presents us with new challenges. These challenges are opportunities for growth. How we face our challenges and what we learn from them will ultimately define our character.
Plug Into Your Hard-Wired Happiness: TED Video
Have you spent your life learning to be happy or unhappy? This TED video shows you how to recognize the patterns of unhappiness and how to learn how to be happy.
Sunshine in a Bowl
I took a moment this afternoon to peruse flickr and found myself suddenly entranced with images of pretty spring flowers, tulips and a vast array of blooming blossoms. I could almost smell the fresh scent of spring as images of lush green sprang out at me. My reality check came quick and fierce as I glanced outside at the landscape of brown trees emerging from white snow and ice covering the wet brown grass of decaying leaves.
Cats and Gardens
High strung, reactive, and rescued from a crack house when she was weeks old, Crack Cat has never been what you would call a “lap cat.” Even so, as Nathan Thompson discovered, she brought with her many life lessons.
(Re)connecting with Nature Reduces Stress and Awakens the Spirit
Nature quite simply has a way of making all of that chaotic energy melt away when we begin to embrace, reconnect and appreciate the peaceful and healing qualities to be found there.
Finding Redemption
When Mary Black Bonnet was 17, she was raped. Today, she looks back at that young girl who felt so alone and unheard, and with the power of writing, she documents her journey from helplessness to healing.
Dark Roast
Some days. Like today. Up before the alarm, rain sluicing down the west windows, a chilly morning in the Pacific Northwest. Spring. I go into the kitchen and start making my coffee. Everyday I make the same choice; that is, I decide whether or not to use the drip filter, the French press or the […]
How Long Can You Be in Pain?
Recently, very recently, I have decided that it is finally time to let go of the pain I have been carrying around for 30 months. It is time to forgive, to forget, to let go, to move on.
Celebrating the Moment
They say that being in the moment is the key to happiness. Here’s a tale of a brief moment that went beyond happiness, and took our writer to the next level, all in a span of time that can be measured in the intake of a breath.
Lanterns Winner Chosen from Stories of Celebration
Hippy Urban Girl’s announces the winner of the book Lanterns: A Gathering of Stories. It’s all in the spirit of celebration.
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