I walk the trail with you Some days our walk is brutally hard We cry Some days our walk is exquisitely ecstatic We laugh, dance, sing I walk the trail with you The trail forks We choose which way is best not by what brings the least pain but what…
Trust is the Secret Sauce
I was asked, What is this path of virtues so many mystics speak of? One’s actions are not created from the reaction of others; One’s progress can be measured by the expression of one’s interior state of calm and peace whereby the outward expression matches the inner and is sustained…
Spring Love Inspiration
I spent the day painting a bathroom. With each stroke and dip of brush into the can thoughts of you covered me, leaving me white-washed in love. Thoughts of you never leave me and it is during times like now, when I’ve stopped everything to really look at my thoughts…
Grasping
The only way to stop an addiction is to stop; the only way to be free of an addiction is to let it go. Read that again…to be free of an addiction, let it go. This is not a difficult thing to do, this letting go, once you see and…
Daring Kindness
Dare I suggest this creative/tweak/revision/editing of Dr. Kent M. Keith’s ‘The Paradoxical Commandments’ often attributed incorrectly to Mother Teresa? I was never fond of the repetitive ‘anyway’ so I mercifully zapped it for good. May my lines inspire you to post your own version: If you are helpful, some may…