Tag Archives: Love

My Friends

(Left to Right: Michael, Shannon, Ileen holding Damian, Andrea, Peter and Caswallon.)
Community is an important aspect of my spiritual self, and to that extent friendship is too. I can’t imagine life without good friends spending good times together (or supporting each other through any bad times.) I am an extrovert, I am a people person, [...]

Enjoying Life

(Photo of me from October 2002 in Sitges, the town I lived in in Spain.)
So many people inspire me to enjoy my life to the fullest, my husband, my son, my mom, my dad, my friends and family (especially my Aunt Ruth, if I have half her energy in my middle years, I will be [...]

On Death

“You would know the secret of death
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
For death and life are one, even as a river and the sea are one.
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into into the sun?
And what is [...]

Breath.

One of my morning prayers.

Propostion 8 and Hate

If you’ve followed the news lately, you know that California’s Proposition 8, which modifies the state constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to be between a man and a woman, essentially denying the rights of any gay couple to enjoy the benefits of marriage.
What exactly does this mean – here is an exhaustive list [...]