I recently moved to Vero Beach, Florida into a wonderful, light filled house nestled in a jungle setting with a five minute walk to the beach. I have landed in a little piece of paradise after weeks of packing, weeding, sorting, hauling, organizing and an endless design with "stuff". All of these dealings with my [...]
The Fibonacci sequence correlates to a golden ratio which describes the predictable growth in living things as well as the behavior of many natural systems. The formula for this arrangement presents us with a refined simplicity while simultaneously revealing a world of complex and abstract thoughtful creativity. This simple sequence begins with the number one [...]
We are living in an ever increasing time of external information…overload. While televisions, radios, cell phones, computers and iPads enable us all to stay connected and informed, we are paying a price. It is easy for our body, mind and spirit to get buried in layers with so much incoming information from the outside. We [...]
Some folks say you cannot love another until you love yourself first. This makes me wonder…why is it we do not love ourselves first? Does loving another first teach us to love ourselves? Can we not find love for ourselves by loving another? Is this why so many marriages end in divorce because we don't [...]
Red dragonflies can be rare to view, and very special when the opportunity comes along. Yet, interestingly, they often appear to people surrounding life episodes of loss and death; perhaps a bit of an oxymoron that these lovely winged creatures are present at such times. But the meaning of red dragonfly includes both good and [...]
What does it mean to be a human being? Perhaps some people ask this question, and perhaps others do not. At some point, in some way, everyone, I think, asks this question. The answers will vary immensely from person to person. But what if there was just one answer, one truth, with which to understand [...]
When I was growing up as a girl on our Virginia farm, my father was always testing me to see if I remembered the names for different types of trees and birds. He took immense pleasure in watching the birds flock in the feeders outside the kitchen window, studying them in his piles of [...]
The human experience connects all of us together through our shared understandings of what it means to have a physical, mental and emotional body. Each one of us is the expression of the sum total of our physical, mental and emotional experiences in life; the total which ultimately defines our heart response and our [...]
