Back to normal
It has been ten months now since I first had the sad news about my mother’s illness and for the next eight months I had been flying back and forth to care for her, alternating each two weeks with my …...
View Articlespring into summer
After over three and a half years of looking towards spring with hope and optimism while still trudging through the mud of a cold bleak winter, I feel that winter is finally over. Spring is here....
View ArticleLife around the corner
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.” from Kindness, poem by Naomi Shihab Nye Life around the corner (that corner that I...
View ArticleFeeling my feelings
At the beginning of 2014, at the tail end of a period of reflection, I was beginning to have a vision for my future. It was a defining moment. After my marriage collapse I had spent quite some time...
View ArticleI am on the bridge!!
I am on the bridge! Life in transition has four phases of holding on (mourning losses), letting go, taking on, and then finally moving on. I was stuck in the ‘letting go’ part for a long time and then...
View ArticleRecognizing my own feelings
Since returning home, I have begun sorting through my boxes, some of which I have not been able to previously tackle as they hold records of family ventures, travel, community involvement and business...
View ArticleTransmuting anger
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move...
View Articlenew transitions
Back on that bridge … As I wrote in a recent post, I am again on my way from here to there, with life in transition. A transition is moving from one life chapter to the next such as transitioning …...
View Articlefeeling intoxicated!
I have been feeling Euphoric! The taste of what true freedom means is beginning to seep into the essence of my being. This began after the sale of the business and has continued to grow as I have...
View ArticleMy H.E.A.L.T.H. plan – H for headstrong.
At the beginning of the year I wrote an initial post about how, in this first year of my new beginnings, I wanted to focus on me and getting my health and fitness to a level I was happy with. …...
View ArticleWhat it means to have ‘time off’– permanently
For the past forty years it seems my life has been one hectic event after another – marriage and travel and children and work and community involvement and celebrations. I had holidays, of course, but...
View ArticleDisappointment
Having been wounded by betrayal by the one whom I gave my heart to (my husband) I am finding that I am reacting to actions of others and exaggerating the hurt when they act below my expectations,...
View ArticleMy H.E.A.L.T.H. plan – E for eating matters
Eating matters to me, not only for my health and vitality, but also for my social interactions, for my sense of belonging and for participating in the celebrations of life. Unfortunately, over the past...
View ArticleMy H.E.A.L.T.H. plan – A is for Active – how doing ‘something’ every day grew...
Two years ago I wrote a post on how my attempts at engaging in an exercise programme (such as running or going to the gym) repeatedly failed. That was because it was an all or nothing approach that I...
View ArticleThe next step …
Initially when I was thrust unexpectedly into the world of divorce I could not cope. In order to survive, I put aside major decisions and strategic steps that would eventually need to be taken. I...
View ArticleFinding my voice …
When I changed the name of my blog to spring into summer, it was because I felt I had (at last) come through the winter of despair after the collapse of my marriage. My mood had become more upbeat and...
View ArticleFinding my stronger voice
In my quiet space, I have been having flash-backs to past events and feeling how I felt at the time (including negative feelings) rather than stifling those feelings. This has not been looking back at...
View ArticleOut with the old …
I have been somewhat absent from blogging the past few months for various reasons including good reasons (visiting my grand-daughters more often, sharing with my son the launch of his first book, and...
View ArticleIn with the new …
Over many years, rather than a list of resolutions of what I would like ‘to do‘ for the year, I had thought of new beginnings in philosophical terms of what I would like ‘to be‘ such as being...
View ArticleI feel the glow …
In addition to my practical aims for the coming year, I have thought of a word to aim for in regard to my inner self. Last year I chose light. At the time I was just emerging from a very … Continue...
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