Three times. Three times I postponed my Balloon Fiesta retreat due to the pandemic. I had it planned, reservations made, collected deposits, and sold out spots, only to cancel, push out the date, and try again. And again, and again. The sheer grit and determination...
In 2016, I traveled to Naples, seeking advice, hell, let’s call it what it was, a spiritual breakthrough. Stuck for a couple of years in my head and heart, I was tired of asking myself the same questions without any new answers. Exhausted at figuring out my ‘what’s...
I’m sitting at the Chicago airport, wallowing in the ‘in-between’, returning from magical Santa Fe, New Mexico, and headed back to pure Michigan to enjoy the summer in the Great Lakes state. The ‘in-between.’ In between destinations and...
This morning sipping my coffee, I watched confident blue jays, Mr. and Mrs., monopolize the birdfeeder from my kitchen window. I don’t know what made me happier. Seeing the striking blue feathers or watching the swallows, 1/3 of the blue jays’ size, jockey for...
Resistance is the enemy. Make no mistake about it. Most of us have two lives, the life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands resistance. When I read these words from the author, Steven Pressfield, The War of Art, it was a gut punch. Another...
