#MondaysMoments
September 21 2020
Finding balance in our lives is important. It is when we are off balance that wholeness is harder to achieve. Native American and Canada’s First Nations people use a concept that represents t...
Monday, September 21, 2020
September 14 2020
As a child, I remember learning the lesson that losing balance was painful. It’s a vivid memory. I was taking gymnastic lessons in a building on the corner of Atherton Street and College Avenue. We...
Monday, September 14, 2020
September 7 2020
Happy Labor Day! Today as we honor workers, I hope you have the opportunity to consider this month’s theme, “Finding Balance.” How do you find balance in your life? For example, how do you find wor...
Monday, September 7, 2020
August 31 2020
Much of my work centers around dying, death and grief, and as you’ll see below in the third part of a piece I wrote for the August 6 through 12 Centre County Gazette, that work fills my soul - as d...
Monday, August 31, 2020
August 24 2020
Continuing below is the second part of a piece I wrote for the August 6 through 12 Centre County Gazette on this month’s theme of “What Fills Your Soul?”
I’ve had the great privilege of being pres...
Monday, August 24, 2020
August 17 2020
As we continue discussing what fills our souls, over the next three weeks I’m going to share a piece I wrote on this theme that was printed in the August 6 through 12 Centre County Gazette:
I love...
Monday, August 17, 2020
August 10 2020
We began last week by describing our soul as our blueprint, I also like to think of it as our hidden wholeness. Theologian and physician, Albert Schweitzer said, “There is within each of us a...
Monday, August 10, 2020
Previous Posts
December 11 2023
I wasn’t always comfortable with the concept of, “Dare! Silence.” I grew up in a house with five kids and two parents, so silence was not something that happened often. When I began to practice a s...
December 4 2023
This month’s theme is “Dare! Silence.” Silence is very important throughout our lives, especially on our grief journeys. Silence can be intimidating, and we often try to fill it when we encounter i...
November 27 2023
To close this month, please read Anne Hillman’s poem, “We Look With Uncertainty” as you notice “something new is being born in” you while making new treasured memories.
We look with uncertainty
be...
November 20 2023
My favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. In terms of the meanings behind other holidays, I’m all in. But I can do without their hype and commercialization. So as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, ...
November 13 2023
As I was writing this month’s posts about our theme of “Memories Become Treasures,” the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac started to play. When our youngest child went off to college, this song mad...
November 6 2023
This month’s theme is “Memories Become Treasures.” In a recent grief education and support group I was leading we talked about looking at old photographs of deceased loved ones and how those pictur...
October 30 2023
To close out this month, read these words of poet John O'Donohue:
The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presenc...
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