One last day to scurry around, making deliveries and buying final stocking stuffers, seeing friends, and such. Our Christmas will be quiet this year since our son is out of the country. But it’s been a busy year, so a quiet Christmas may be just the ticket. We do have an appetizer and dessert buffet … More This Is the Only White Christmas We’re Likely to Get in Central Carolina
This year, I’m really being called to do more around celebrating the Winter Solstice. It started in early December, when I did my workshop on Winter Spiritual Journaling and discussed the spiritual qualities of Winter. Then on December 11, I gave our Spiritual Center’s Wednesday night service talk/discussion on the Winter Solstice. One of the … More Motivational Music Monday
Welcome to the second day of celebrating Pancha Ganapati! Pancha Ganapati is a modern Hindu holiday, developed around the elephant-headed God Ganesha, that runs from December 21-25. Like Kwanza, it was created around the Solstice/Christmas/Hannukah time, but with a spiritual/community focus for each day. And each day also has its own color! The first day … More Happy Pancha Ganapati!
December is filled with holidays involving light, so I thought this was a great song for this month. It both reminds us to look for the light when we are journeying, and reminds us that we may never know the light we are for others. It is by Carrie Newcomer, who is a singer I … More Motivational Music Monday: A Light in the Window by Carrie Newcomer
Welcome to Day 4 of our 6-day long holiday of Hallowalimuertos! It’s going by so fast. Halloween and Día de los Muertos are over, although the veil is still thin and you might still be getting messages from the other dimension. But it is Day 3 of Diwali, which is usually the most festive day … More A Hallowalimuertos Song
Hallowalimuertos, it turns out, is the gift that keeps on giving. For it turns that today, November 1, Cary, NC–the official founding site of Hallowalimuertoes–is not only celebrating All Saints Day and the start of Diwali (there is a large population of Asian Indians in Cary and its adjoining town, Morrisville), but also “Carey Day.” … More Hallowalimuertos, Day 2: Turns Out We are also Celebrating Carey Day
Happy Fourth of July! Except for so many people, it doesn’t seem to be…happy, that is. The South and Midwest are suffering under dangerously high heat. The East Coast continues to breath air heavy in ash from the onging wild fires in Canada. There was another mass shooting Monday night for another unknown reason that … More America…the Beautiful? Or the Baffling?
There isn’t much about this current election, at least to me, that inspires hope. I’ve always been someone who considered Voting Day to be a celebration, knowing that voting is a gift and a privilege that is denied to so many people around the world. I vote in every election, even the primaries and the … More Inspiration About Hope from Three Heroes and Three Neighbors I Don’t Know
This is a quote by former first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, that is displayed as part of the Franklin Roosevelt monument that is also along the tidal basin. “The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative … More Fourth Day of Peace Thought: Let’s All Choose to Get on the Peace Train Every Day
I suspect that many of you are probably similar to me when it comes to the Ukraine. While of course I support the country against the undeserved aggression by the Russian military, I don’t really know that much about Ukraine as a country. For example, did you know it’s the second largest country in Europe, … More Third Day of Peace Thought: Getting to Know Ukraine
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