The World Beyond by Sri Chinmoy – Book Review
The World Beyond by Sri Chinmoy offers insight into death and bereavement informed by Eastern spiritual philosophy and the author's firsthand wisdom as a spiritual teacher to thousands of seekers around the world. I had been meaning to write about this recently...
Final Moment Farewells
Miraculously perhaps, the last 47 years of my life have been overflowing with life and death has been almost a stranger in the circle of my closest family and friends. Granted death is the great equalizer and it has not passed over my doorstep completely. The grief...
The Tallest Tree – A Giant Among Us Has Died.
Back when I was hunting to buy my first house, my nature and tree-loving inclinations had me secretly hoping for a yard around the house with at least one nice tree. The realtor helping me in this house-finding mission would give me for sale listings in the vicinity...
No Two the Same but All Are One
Maybe it was the misty morning. A dew stew swirled about. Due to a lingering lack of rain, the fall foliage is a little dull this year. Finally today the misty dew coating the leaves during a morning walk before work added a saturation shot better than a Photoshop...
The Gift and Giving of a Child
Today at the library where I work we had a big yard sale, bake sale and raffle of prizes donated by local businesses. It was a fund-raiser to benefit the library which finds itself in danger of losing state certification because of budget reductions in a town facing...
A Few of My Favorite Blogs Make It on a “Best of” List
Life Coach Priscilla Palmer recently created a list of top sites to aid personal development. In her introduction to the list she defines personal development as "a large topic that includes but is not limited to (law of attraction, goals, time management, physical...