Tag: love
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*The *Beat of the *Heartsong * goes *on and *on and *on * * *
It’s impossible to lose a soul mate. Your hearts and souls have been so conjoined, so one—that although the physicality may no longer be present, there is nothing that can disrupt the existence of each other. Go ahead and mourn, knowing that when you do, you are mourning for your own loss and not theirs. …
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Are you ready?
Decades ago, I watched someone who I was very close to, figuratively speaking, waterskiing on a lake in Massachusetts. It wasn’t something this person had done recently, so I was really impressed that this person was not only able to ski quite well, but to slalom, as well. As I watched the ski boat come…
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Be the action
In 2018, Merriam Webster added a new word to the established dictionary: healthspan. While many of us focus on lifespan and awareness of the average years of age people live, how many consider just how many of those years are healthy? This is your healthspan. As one year draws to an end and another begins,…
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2024 Holiday Message
2024 was a year of healing. That also suggests that there must have been some injury. There was. After a December ’23 fall in a hotel room, my husband required surgery in 2024 to help put a foot with multiple fractures back into the assemblance of a foot. (Note to self: turn on the light,…
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Love. The spirit of what matters
Are you sangfroid and do you possess neart? Do you have “the ability to stay calm in difficult or dangerous situations” (Merriam Webster) and are you strong-spirited, possessing “inner strength, courage, or fortitude”? (Word Guru) Neart is an Irish word, picked up by Word Guru, but is yet to make it to Merriam Webster as…
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The Word is Love
We cannot begin to know the impact of how what we think, what we believe and what we do affects us and others—and our earth. This continuum we conceptualize as time… Is it a continuum? What does that mean? And so this chapter begins. Not as a new chapter. Not as answers. Not a result…