Category Archives: Parenting
Forever
This was written after sitting with a mother,
as she tried to explain how she feels living through another day
of her daughter’s addiction, and was first shared in December 2007.
I am posting it again, because there have been several people
that have recently shared stories of addiction that they are facing in their families.
This is an issue [...]
The miracle of laughter…
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
e e cummings
At the end of your days, can you think back over the day
and remember all the times you laughed?
Really laughed…
the kind of laugh that might be too loud,
or goes on too long,
and makes other people look at you (wishing they were you!)?
The kind of [...]
There are no replicas~
“Live up to YOUR potential, instead of imitating someone else’s.”
Martha Burgess
She wanted her daughter to be her own person.
She wanted her daughter to listen to her own voice, not the incessant clamoring of mass media, to determine her path.
She begged her daughter to believe that she is amazing and deserves respect and love from all [...]
If you wish…
“If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate,
become loving and compassionate yourself.
If you wish to diminish fear in the world,
diminish your own.
These are the gifts you can give.”
Gary Zukav
I recently had an interesting conversation with a mother that was very upset
over “the state of the world,” and what that meant in the future [...]
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