25th April 2008
The Eckhart Tolle/Oprah Winfrey webinar exploring each chapter in depth of "A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose" has deepened my awareness and practice of Mindfulness, a spiritual discipline I've loved for many years.
The webinar is a little ...
13th April 2008
It's been two weeks since I stopped watching the news.
And one week since Mukunda had his surgery.
And Now, we are hanging out by the river. Suddenly, the days are warmer, the pale green hue of springtime is deepening with every moment.
My friend...
07th April 2008
My friend John died on Sunday.
Today is Wednesday.
As I allow my mind to travel over the many years of our friendship, I remember vividly the first moment I saw John: at his mother's funeral. My parents, who have since passed, were close to John's p...
03rd April 2008
I hung out with my old dog Mukunda, today, as I do every day.
I took him to my friend Ellen's house and we exchanged the Mechano treatment, only after we tossed a few rounds of ball and marveled at how well Muki ignored Aslom, the cat.
We compliment...
28th March 2008
My name is Kate Loving Shenk of Nursing Career Transformation and a Staff Registered Nurse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
As a Health Care Professional, I see people who are between jobs, who are in retirement, or starting a new business, or who want to g...
25th March 2008
Gender and race in Politics: Is it real? Is it important?
Is it a distraction? Is it a way to divide and separate people from important discourse and meaningful discussion?
Or when someone blurts out a statement that is innocent enough, and then is ...
11th March 2008
Today was the first teleconference call a group of us had on The Journaling For Achievement Group at Women Internet Marketing Ning, which is a Web 2.0 site on the Internet.
We were to be discussing our goals for the month of March and beyond. I offered...
04th March 2008
Magic Becky and Mooie Infinity, Second Life identities, joined forces again to commemorate Becky Rhone-Nowlan's new Electronic book entitled: Secrets Of The Second Fortune.
This book is about Customer Service in the Internet business world and explains...
25th February 2008
21 days of Complaint Free Living is an exercise in facing the fear, guilt and blame of the ego and replacing these with compassion, fearlessness and courage of the love which is eternal, residing in our deepest well of creative expression.
I haven't me...
15th February 2008
Happiness: the elusive life ingredient we all seek and only find when letting go of the need to have it.
The need to be happy versus the act of being happy in the moment is the great balancing act of a life time.
Giving thanks for the beauty of all ...
11th February 2008
My husband Tom had a heart attack 14 years ago today, in the worst winter in memory. Ice storm after ice storm plummeted Pennsylvania, and particularly Lancaster County. Hours before the infarction, we used chains to get our van out of an icy ditch. Ice p...
02nd February 2008
I was recently drawn to the book: "Merv: Making the Good Life Last."
Aside from the fact that Merv Griffin was a business genius, as one of my Second Life friends recently pointed out, I was struck by how Merv lived his life from a level of pure gut in...
26th January 2008
Resentments kill, so says Bill W., founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Bill W. made the simple realization that resentments are the downfall of all alcoholics, and I daresay, all human beings.
Resentments are an immediate red flag that a person is sink...
22nd January 2008
Much press is given aging Baby Boomers who send their children to college and in many cases, take care of their aging parents at the same time.
In my own case, my mother died after a stroke after a two month decline in 1987. I just graduated from my Nu...
18th January 2008
Strong emotions such as anger are dangerous to repress. Heart disease and cancer are the by products of such repression, among other things.
But over the years I've noticed that people who express their anger are control freaks and are toxic in the way...
