Holistic Life

“I do not know how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.” ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.” ~ Charles de Lint

I was in desperate need of some magic this [...]

Some of you may recognize this as the text of HHP’s Holiday Message from 2007… I was re reading (as we who attempt to write are wont to do) and thought that, while the theme is similar to this year’s, it comes at these universal ideas from a slightly different slant… I hope you decide [...]

It has been a hard year…

Jobs are down while interest rates are up.  We have committed 30,000 of our young people to a war half a world away while we continue to lead the battle on not one but two fronts.  The fragile hope of last year’s political elections has been tarnished by the reality [...]

“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” ~ Trina Paulus

I always thought that if you opened up a chrysalis, you would find – depending on when in the process you peeked – something that was a little more [...]

“Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.” ~ Richard Needham

I have an inherent distrust of so called spiritual leaders who profess to have all the answers.

They set off my bullshit meter.

Because – let’s [...]

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached” ~ Simon Weil

“Be attached to nothing and open to everything.” ~ Dr. William Dyer

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Attachments are [...]

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” ~ Anne Lamott

We all have moments in our lives when we feel we are outside the Flow of Life, when it seems that we are disconnected from [...]

“Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable” ~ Madeline Kuhn

I have been known at times to divide the entire human race up into Pepto and Non-Pepto people…

When I was a kid, Pepto-Bismol was a family staple.  I was shocked then, as I moved out into the larger world, [...]

“The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.” ~ Norbet Platt

So… I got off track in my blogging last week.

All my energy was caught up in being Juliet, and then in our Groupon Deal… and I [...]

“Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.” ~ Jack Zipes

Every culture has its mythology, a strong underlying story that shapes the identity, at some level, [...]