Category: Play

Get Ready for Spring by Healing This: Pisces

[2.28.23] The sun sparkled on my face through an east-facing window while I stretched. Annie Lennox sang A Whiter Shade of Pale in the background and I wept for my inner child, whose innocent expectation was again dashed by an old challenge. I knew this wound. Okay, I’d let the emotion surface. A little wouldn’t hurt. But like…
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Do This Before SPRINGing into Action

Happy Spring! Lovely to see light outside at dinner time. Sunlight makes a huge difference to me and I’m glad to have completed a long move for more of it. The move is a metaphor, that my family and I answered the call of the heart and worked our butt off to manifest it. Colorado…
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Play, Create, Shine: Leo

“What are you going to do with it?” My colleague asked when I told her I bought a tambourine for my birthday. It startled my enthusiasm. “Play it?” I quipped, “make noise?” Did I miss something? “That’s a great idea for a Christmas present for my nephew,” She said. I felt childish mentioning the tambourine.…
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Defying the Rain

‘Got hit by a ghost!’ I chuckle as I pump my bike in the rain. It means W.T.H. in Taiwanese. That’s right -I left home when it starts to sprinkle. I go anyway because it has been 6 weeks of in-your-face ‘healing crisis.’ Sometimes you gotta let it out when it wants to come out. Today is the first time I feel…
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To France in Film: Pigeons and Love

It’s a delightful film that ‘appeared’ to me on three separate days when I surfed the cable guide. That’s a sign. First time I watched My Afternoons with Margueritte I was amused. The French. Vivid characters. The docile-looking son contrasted with his mad old mother, and she contrasted with a serene, well-read elderly woman. The second…
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Diamonds in the Snow

It was -7F earlier, with a promise to reach 27 degrees. My cutoff for jogging is 20F. The ground has been blanketed with powdered snow, which Colorado is famous for. Even though I whine about driving in it during the making of such blanket, I have to admit: It is darn beautiful. At 9 a.m.…
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