A Meaningful Life

I have no idea if it’s still like this or whether you had the same experience, but back when I was in high school in the 60’s, by junior year, we were supposed to decide what we wanted to do for our careers, for the rest of our lives! I was 15 when that question […]

How many of you have thought about loving without attachment or what that even means? It’s a tricky concept to understand and live, I think, at least it’s been for me. To love without attachment means we open our hearts to another but we don’t control or possess them. It’s something I’ve been consciously trying […]

I am way, way, way, way out of my comfort zone. My life is changing. So much so it is impossible to control and that is the specific point the universe is making, it seems. I am being shown myself, my controlling self—the part of me that actually thinks I can contain life. Until recently […]

Kelee and I went for our first walk since my mishap today. Yesterday the Orthopedist gave me permission to venture out on the Land Grant with a walking stick and some caution. What a revelation! I meandered it with the keen interest of the child, seeing every nook and cranny, every rock, berry, stick and […]

“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.” –Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees I am being told to slow down. I’ve written in this blog […]

“If I can change within myself and keep learning how to change, then the world around me changes.”    –Brian Flowers Brian Flowers is a fellow artist living in one of these Spanish Land Grant villages that nestle in the fingered valleys running along the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. I quote […]