Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today! “Family, a group experience of love and support.” Marianne Williamson If you want to be humbled and awestruck at the same time, visit a redwood forest. My visit to Muir Woods in Northern California was as much a holy experience as it was an education about living. I stood amidst...
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For a full twenty minutes I begged my older sister to trade bunks with me for one measly night. I just had to know the thrill of sleeping in the top bunk bed or die of disappointment. Life is just that dramatic when you’re eight years old.
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“Mother-in-law” conjures up Alan King jokes of shrewish matriarchs who cling to their sons like King Kong to the Empire State Building. But my mother-in-law defied the stereotype. Sheila fox-trotted with me in the sofa section of Crate & Barrel, to the Muzak version of I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. She, in the paisley kerchief (having lost most of her hair by then) and I, the willing dance partner following her lead. And dance we did.
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© Heather Summerhayes Cariou Her hands were larger than mine; her heart too, for that matter. She was twenty-two months younger than I, but her life was shorter. She was my sister, Pam. Her long, bony fingers were clubbed at the tips, with splayed, purple-tinged nails that suggested the lack of oxygen in her blood. Her palms were...
read moreHere’s Something To Feel Good About Today! “He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.” Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941) I believe that every outcome begins with my attitude toward it. While I might approach...
read moreHere’s Something to Feel Good About Today… Relationships can be tricky. When we open our hearts to someone we become vulnerable, trusting the delicate, exposed soft parts of ourselves risks being rejected or hurt. I don’t trust easily but when I do, I give my all. In fact there is nothing I would not do to be there for...
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