To Do

Humans have always felt deep bonds between themselves and animals.

I missed out on seeing a rain dance when I attended a powwow that got rained out.

Inspired by Dylan Thomas’s poem, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Updated January 2010 I have no idea where it originally came from, but somehow a book of magic spells ended up in my hands when I was a kid. I spent hours pouring over it, fascinated by the stories told inside. The first half of the book was collected up stories of witches and witchcraft […]

Updated May 3, 2010 I’ve been raising my awareness about how supremely lucky I am. It’s so easy to concentrate on lack and all the things I want to do and have and to feel deprived. But all it takes to turn that around is shift focus away from what isn’t to what is. I […]

Completed many times over. I’ve actually tried a few different kinds of yoga – Hatha, Yin, Iyengar, and even Ashtanga. I much prefer the gentler, slower forms like Hatha and Yin. I enjoy pulling my mind’s focus to my body and my breath. I like distracting myself from my relentless lists of things to do […]

Completed over and over again. I held my tiny little newphew in my arms minutes after he was born. I saw a gigantic rainbow stretching across the state of Nebraska, touching the horizon at both ends. A good friend’s sister was in a car accident, fell down a flight of stairs, and was struck by […]

Updated May 31, 2010 I’m working on being better at asking questions. Sometimes I’m nervous while I’m meeting with someone, so it’s always good to have someone who’s open to receiving phone calls later to get some questions answered that I think of later. I think I’m also good at questioning the big stuff in […]

I won’t let anything hold me back.

The mysticism of palm reading – do these women really know something about the future? Or are they just gifted at looking into people and seeing what’s really there?