The Wisdom Series: The Wisdom of Gail Sheehy
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.” Gail Sheehy From time to time I will be using this blog to introduce some of you and to remind others of women who offer us significant insight,...
View ArticleFor My Mother’s Birthday: An Ode to My Father
Photographer: TeJae Byram By Linda Campanella Today I brought two yellow roses to my father. Two days from now, my late mother would be turning 80. Yellow roses were “their” roses ever since their...
View ArticleGetting through Grief During the Holidays
The very same holiday rituals that were filled with Joy during other years can become acutely painful when we’re grieving . So much that warmed our spirits during happier times now leave us cold,...
View ArticleTara Brach: The Wisdom Series
Tara Brach is a clinical psychologist, author, lecturer, and teacher of Buddhist mindfulness meditation. I’ve listened to several of her teachings via her youtube channel which blend western...
View ArticleMaking My Life Come True: The Theme for 2015
We’re so busy these days, more often than not it seems, too buried beneath the often insignificant details of our lives to fully live them, or as Gregg Levoy observes, “to make them literally come...
View ArticleBook Group: Deepening the Spiritual Lives of Women
On January 22 from 7:00 to 8:30 join us in a warm and cozy environment to refresh your soul and deepen your spiritual life. We’ll be discussing the first three chapters of “When the Heart Waits” by...
View ArticleCultivating Gratitude
The video above is an excerpt from a talk by Robert Emmons, professor of psychology at the University of California, and author of “Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude can Make you Happier.”...
View ArticleAn Important Message About What Truly Matters
In a TED Talk Jon Jandai offers some significant food for thought regarding what truly matters and how we complicate our lives unnecessarily. Here’s an example of his simple wisdom, “Before I thought...
View ArticleA Short Tour of SagePlace
I made a spontaneous decision to give folks a short tour of SagePlace. This is an unedited video and so please overlook the many less than perfect moments. I wanted it to be authentic vs. polished.
View ArticleParker Palmer’s Wisdom on How to Live a Life
Parker Palmer urges us to fall deeply and madly in love with our lives, and offers some significant wisdom on how to best live them. Here’s a small taste: “…be passionate, fall madly in love with...
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