A woman emerges from a shell on the beach. Caught up in the bliss of becoming, she spreads her arms like wings and flies. The shell is the legendary chambered nautilus, one of Nature’s most incredible *mollusks. What does the nautilus mean to her? To us? Everything! Its life is a metaphor for our soul…
St. Patrick’s Day is coming! Store windows are going green, and it’s not about the environment. Cardboard shamrocks hang in stationery shop windows; florists offer pots of shamrocks and green tinted carnation bouquets. We hunt for something green to wear. Classic movie channels recycle old Irish-themed favorites: The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen…
The writer of one of my favorite love poems, A Birthday, was Christina Rossetti ~ a Victorian spinster. What was it about Victorian spinsters that inclined them toward poetry, and a passionate inner life? Truly, they were singing birds! They sang their hearts out despite the cages in which they were often confined by the…
January. Dark days and long nights. Branches, black against a frozen sky. The swirl of snowflakes on bitter wind. The crunch of snow beneath winter boots. The bite of cold on reddened cheeks, noses, fingers, toes… It’s hard to remember, after the warm glow of Christmas, that cold January is the month of New Beginnings….
At seven a.m. this morning, I switched on my computer to read my email. I checked my bank balance, and shot an e-card off to a friend whose birthday I’d nearly forgotten. (An e-card service to which I subscribe reminded me. Whew!) Then I trotted out the door for my daily walk. Home again, I…
Advertising copywriters know the power of magical thinking. It drives sales! Why else would you buy a pair of overpriced running shoes, hoping they’ll help you “Just DO IT!”? Why else pay big bucks for an expensive spa membership (“It’s all about YOU!”) praying it’ll help you get your groove back? If you’ve fallen into…