Archive for the 'Balanced Life' Category

Give yourself a Break - It’s Vacation Time

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

I keep getting these e-mails, where are you??? What happened to your Blog? And some are even trying to make me feel guilty… by saying: “you are the one that says how important it is to journal every day, how come you don’t ‘walk your talk’ and have not written for such a long time…â€?Well, […]

Happy Birthday to Me!

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

It’s my birthday today! And as I take pleasure in doing ONLY what I like doing today I ran across the following piece that for me summarizes everything I have to say about birthdays, growing older and personal growth.
I hope you enjoy it and use it as much as I love and believe in it.
Have […]

Midsummer Night - Time to Celeberate

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

The Wheel of the year turns again and we arrive at Summer Solstice.
This is a magical time of the year, with long, hot days and warm, short nights.
The Summer Solstice is the longest day and shortest night of the year.
The sun has grown to its full strength, and summer begins.
Even as we enjoy swimming and […]

Mother Earth is Waking Up

Friday, January 26th, 2007

The last few days were freezing when I got out of the house in the morning to take Thom to school. This winter is so weird. Nature is going crazy.
On one side, daffodils are springing out of the earth in mid-January, the crocuses are raising their heads and the trees are showing signs of buds […]

Hestia - Time to Come Home

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I was sitting for my daily meditation and as it was the start of a new year I have decided to open a card from my favorite Goddess Oracle Tarot deck.
To my surprise the card that I got was of the Goddess Hestia. Out of all the Goddesses, she is the one that I still […]

Doing the work that you love

Monday, November 13th, 2006

We’ve just finished our first weekend in a year’s program called The Life-Skills University.
The major part of this weekend was to set goals for the coming years and create a direction in life that would lead to living happily and successfully.
As I was watching the people go through the process I’ve noticed that the younger […]

Inanna – The challenge of leadership

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

This week is dedicated to Inanna the Sumerian Queen of Heaven, (pronounced eh-na’na). Her teaching is all about the challenge of leadership. The ability to rise and fall again.
The Goddess Inanna ruled the people of Sumer, and under her rule the people and their communities prospered and thrived. Inanna was the queen of seven temples […]

The Power of Rituals

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Magic and rituals have long been connected. There is magic in any ceremony that we do, whether it of a routine nature, such as making a wish on our birthday, or whether it is a sophisticated ritual involving all kinds of movements, lights and music. In both cases we are using the power of the […]

Balanced Life - Take Time Off

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I took today a day off. After the hectic times we have experienced in the last 2 weeks (see my blog entry from October 10), I decided that Nisandeh and I deserve a day off to refill our batteries.
We took a whole day off, turned off our mobiles, got away from the computers and phones […]

What’s Your Favorite Saturday Activity?

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

I had to wake up early today (actually very early), as I had to take Thom to a performance that she had from her Dance School. This meant waking at an ungodly hour of 07:00 on a Saturday morning.
While we were driving, a funny thing was happenning on the road. The way that usually takes […]