Good-bye Whitney

Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Bonnie

[caption id="attachment_605" align="aligncenter" width="222" caption="Photo by pop crunch"][/caption]     As my years on the planet increase and my spiritual practice deepens, I become more and more aware of the gift celebrities play for us in our lives...

Walking

Thursday, February 9, 2012 by Bonnie

I love to walk. Every day I take a four to five mile walk and magic happens.  The walk is never the same, although the path remains so.  Different cars drive by me, trees are in different stages of development, birds are chirping or quiet, I am surrounded by a whole variety of life...

Celebrating Life as a Response to Death

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...

Girl Scouts Take the Stand of Inclusion

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...

Your Invitation to Creating a Year That Matters

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...

A New Year, A New Theme

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...

A Year in (Visual) Review

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...

Recognizing the Field of Plenty

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...

Permanently Changing

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...

11/11/11/11

Friday, November 11, 2011 by Bonnie

Hello friends, It is November 11 at 11:11 am. I have not studied numerology, but there is evidence today has some significance as I have received the following: two spiritual concert invitations a forgiveness event two gong ceremonies five meditation events - - local and virtual I Googled the significance of the number and this is what I learned: www...