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...
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...
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...
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...
Monday, August 29, 2011 by Bonnie
Guess what? I've gone back to school. I've prepared for it all week beginning with a conversation with my Starbuck's barista. Brian welcomed me with my venti, Passion, no sweetener, iced tea informing me "school has started...
Sunday, July 24, 2011 by Bonnie
[caption id="attachment_124" align="aligncenter" width="196" caption="Ralph Waldo Emerson"][/caption]
Expiate -- To extinguish guilt or to atone
In his essay, Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson says "I don not wish to expiate, but to live...
Monday, May 2, 2011 by Bonnie
The past two years for me have been about "Birthing My Soul." I had gone through a very extended rough patch which I celebrate physically living through. I worked with a team of doctors, spiritual coaches, therapists of many genres, to support this transformation. My Energy Doctor told me early on in the disintegration process that I would be well the day I had more of "Me" in my body than "other people...
