Becoming Gold
Music has healing properties. And it seems that just when I need it, a song will show up to tell me just what I need to hear. Marc Cohn is a singer-songwriter whose music touches my soul. In his song She’s Becoming Gold, he sings […]
Music has healing properties. And it seems that just when I need it, a song will show up to tell me just what I need to hear. Marc Cohn is a singer-songwriter whose music touches my soul. In his song She’s Becoming Gold, he sings […]
In an act of decluttering I stumbled upon the most marvelous book that I had bought in an epiphanic moment. Reboot Your Life is the title. And it talks about taking a sabbatical from your life to recharge it. Think of the book Eat, Pray, […]
Does change make you shake? Does it make you quiver inside until you feel like you’re going to burst? Change can be like a tsunami. It can wreak havoc on your entire world. But like any natural disaster, it also creates a lot of movement […]
While we may not know the duration of our lives, we can determine our days any time we want. We have a choice whether we see tragedy in the affairs of our hours or a new possibility to learn something we didn’t know before. Many […]
Pearls of sweat bead on your brow. You sit, perched on the edge of your seat, waiting to jump out of it during the scariest part of the movie. You toss and turn at night, plagued by a recurring nightmare of being chased in the […]
I am a light chaser. Sunrays heal my soul whilst darkness chokes me like a chicken bone lodged in my throat. So when I see the sun straining in the daytime winter sky, I secretly cheer it on. For the Northern Hemisphere, the darkest day […]
Do you know the story of Sisyphus, the mythological figure who was doomed to push a boulder up a hill, only to have it fall down again at night? He was actually a deceitful kingĀ who, at one time, took pleasure in killing people. Not […]
Love comes from within. And it starts with loving yourself first. You know the adage: you can’t find love if you don’t know how to give it. That applies to giving it to yourself in heaps too. I learned this lesson the hard way, always […]
In the past two days I have watched two movies. It’s been one of those rainy weekends where staying indoors seemed like the best solution. The Life of Pi, an epic Ang Lee film about a young man’s journey of perseverance and survival, was not […]
Passion. It’s the fuel to life’s engine. Without it we wander aimlessly and without purpose. My best friend alternately uses the word “passionate” and “intense” to describe her experience when she’s with me. It’s genetic, I think. After all, I’m the daughter of a woman […]