Judging Happiness
Someone told me the other day that I don’t seem happy. OUCH! I usually ask people to tell me what led them to make an observation and in this case the person couldn’t really isolate anything specific. She told me that I had been quiet in a meeting that week. I had been quiet in [...]
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A great gift we can give to others is to be able to trust in them—that they have their own source of guidance and wisdom, that they have the ability to discern what is best for them and the right to find that path by making mistakes and learning. from The Language of Letting Go [...]
Bigger Kids = Bigger Problems
That’s what someone once told me along with the advice, “Enjoy them while they are young!” At that time I hadn’t slept for 6 hours straight in days and had no idea if I would ever be able to sit quietly and read a book. They were right of course, and here I am now [...]
Messed Up
Yesterday I had conversations with two women in their early 20′s. Both of them feel a little messed up. They seem to think that there are answers and they should have things all figured out by now. I assured them that life is messy and part of growing means being in uncharted territory where you [...]
Being Selfish
Recently I have become aware of how often I do things because that is what I think other people want me to do. I have been learning to speak from the ‘I’ here at RRU. I am looking at what I want. It’s hard for me to make this shift – not that I was [...]
Releasing
It is hard to let go of people and things. I’ve had to do a bit of releasing lately. Today it was our 14 year old Dodge Caravan that finally bit the dust. In the last month I’ve released my son on a solo road trip. I’ve released someone who hurt me by forgiving them [...]
