Wednesday, January 25, 2012 by Bonnie
Today am I keenly aware of death. Rev. Jackie Allen, my former practitioner teacher made her transition this week. Three years ago today, my father passed away. Last month I attended an out of state memorial service for my high school friend's husband. Yesterday I dropped a sympathy card in the mail for a friend whose father passed...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by Bonnie
Over the years I have loved Martin Luther King, Jr for his commitment to living heaven on earth and I've disliked him for his alleged philandering. When I learned it was a mother who said to him in the grocery story "I hope someday our children can play together and not be judged by the color of their skin but instead by their character," I was angry he didn't credit her for these heart felt words...
Thursday, January 12, 2012 by Bonnie
While on my morning walk listening to Beth and Friends, KEZ 99.9 fm, on my iHeart Radio app, disc jockey Beth played a portion of the YouTube video, below. It is a talk given by a 14 year old Girl Scout advocating a boycott of Girl Scout Cookies because they allow transgendered individuals in the troops...
Thursday, January 5, 2012 by Bonnie
Happy 2012!!
Join me for taking Rhonda Britten's Create a Year That Matters. Each one of us creates a life that matters by creating moments, days, years, and decades which have meaning to us. Chunking down our dreams, goals, and aspirations into sizes we can implement, then acting upon those chunks, allow us to create a life of our choice...Friday, December 30, 2011 by Bonnie
What is your theme for 2012? Every year I choose a theme for the new year. Why? It becomes my year's anchor and guide. Instead of waddling through a year, I have purpose. At the completion of the next year, God-willing, I can look back through a lens and see my life with a given perspective...
Thursday, December 29, 2011 by Bonnie
Beginnings, middles and ends tend to be important to me. If my year has been more bad than good, I am grateful it is over. "Phew, thank God, I can start again." If more joy than pain, I celebrate this. "Yippee, winner." (is that word Trademarked now?) Always a triumph in the flipping of the calendar from one year to the next...
Friday, December 23, 2011 by Bonnie
Bible stories to a metaphysician is like analyzing a good dream to a Jungian psychologist. It’s all about symbology. Meta-physical means “beyond the physical.” Or, in this case, not the literal...
Sunday, December 18, 2011 by Bonnie
My daughter visited over the Thanksgiving Holiday, and like any good mother I brought her to Old Town Scottsdale for an afternoon. As she was in a store, I stepped outside following my ears. I was hearing something which sounded like Christmas singing, guitar playing and a horse neighing. An odd combination, or so I thought...
Friday, December 16, 2011 by Bonnie
In church one Sunday, sitting on a pew in the corner cubby, I meditated. I don't recall much of anything said or music sung, I recall instead an inner question which bubbled up from inside me about half way through the service...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 by Bonnie
Impermanence. Buddhists use this term to describe the constant state of change. Life is impermanent. Everything changes. Suffering, the Buddhist says, exists in part when we hold on to that which changes, wanting it to stay the same...
