I have been reading a lot of posts online about how people are spending more money this year than last Christmas. They are stressed about spending too much , gifts not being appreciated, cutting off all gift giving and going in debt. Everyone was piling on.I feel curdled just reading it all. I am, Read More
I went Christmas shopping with a friend last night. Our gift giving styles are very different.Compared to my family, she was buying a lot of presents. And let’s just say that she feels a lot more pressure to “get it right” when it comes to gift selection. That must suck the fun out of, Read More
If you are kind and share what you have, when you get more money you will share more. If you are graspy and greedy, when you have more money, your graspy greedy energy is amped up. Money exposes who you are. If you are an asshole, you will be a bigger asshole. If you, Read More
I read a beautiful, lyrical passage by Robin Wall Kimmerer, from Braiding Sweetgrass: indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and The Teachings of Plants. “What would it be like, I wondered, to live with heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? To consider the trees in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in, Read More
There are times when you need to slow down and rest.Times when a pause is healing to your soul. But when you are trying to attain a goal or reach out toward something you desire, err on the side of action. Even when it’s not pretty. Try something and fail.Then try something else. We, Read More
Several times this week I ran into people who I thought knew what I do for a living, who then asked me what I am doing these days. ?!? I have been doing this work for over a decade. I obviously have not made myself visible. I have not been vocal about what I, Read More
We have all been there. Difficult conversations about money. Who wants that argument?Or that snide look?Or that silent treatment? It’s easier to put it off. Stuff it down.Gloss over it. But every time you hold back on telling your truth, you make fear more important than love. Boom. You make fear more important than, Read More
Try something you haven’t done before. Something you haven’t done because you think you are going to suck at it. Or feel uncomfortable. Make it a stretch. But before you do, make an agreement with yourself that you aren’t going to beat yourself up for it. It can be big… ask for a raise. It, Read More
Freedom.I love the feeling. Yes, I have become used to freedom here in the US. We don’t appreciate it quite as intensely until we don’t have it.Or it is threatened. But recently I have been using the feeling of freedom as a steering mechanism. As a compass. What feels like freedom?That’s what I steer, Read More
Things are easy right now.There is an ease to almost everything I do. And it’s getting boring. So I am thinking of biting off a BIG new project. And that seems like it’s going to take a lot of effort. The kind of effort that eventually slows me down to a slow trudge uphill, Read More