"A little of what you fancy does you good.   Marie Lloyd     WALKING IN THIS WORLD, The Practical Art of Creativ...

  A blank journal, carefully selected lays open in front of me.  It is in recognition of a new birth year.  I allow myself the indulg...

"The oppression of your twenties is the liberation of your seventies."   Panache Desai       Round and round ...

      THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY is a book I read a very long time ago.  So long ago, I cannot recall the story line.  The fa...

"As you enter your day, try not to reach for life. Try not to leave or arrive. Try to let life enter you."   Mark N...

      "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."   Anna Freud     Creati...

      "Without the energy keeping it alive, no thought can survive."   Panache Desai     Today was going to ...

  "Vulnerable we are lie an infant. We need each other's care or we will suffer."   St. Catherine of Sienna 13...

    "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."   Alice Walker THE...

     "There is a source of divine wisdom in us that simply knows. A nudge, an awareness, a dream, an intuitive flash, a grad...

    "For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."   Lily Tomlin     This morning, I was enjoying my coffee out o...

        "To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world ~ th...

    "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ~ I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."  ...

"Everybody loves to talk about calm and peace whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace ...

    "I didn't realize that waiting had a function. The waiting wasn't waiting.  It was working out everything goin...

    "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."   William James     I enjoy people who t...

      We are frequent visitors of Key West, Florida.  Every evening there is a Sun Down Celebration by the ocean front.  This celeb...

      We don't all have instant access to a comfy beach chair by the ocean.  Through meditation or visualization, however, we c...

I "If you just think what you know to think, say what you know to say, and do what you know to do, you'll blow all their...

      "Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know." Pema Chodron     Our culture teache...

      "Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open. Move outside the tangle of fear thinking. Live in silenc...

At a very young age, we learned to look up at the sky seeking out the twinkling of the stars.  Oh how magical they seemed and remember h...

        "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."   Ralph Waldo Emerson     ...

                            Through meditation and the practice of disciplines such as slowing down and keeping th...

      "If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write an...

    "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at ...

      "Sometimes it does feel like I can hear  the voice of God come quickly like the wind and whisper a passing thought, and...