I used to be a regular contributor to this blog, always on the 31st of the month. I “resigned” from regularly posting earlier this year, but feel prompted, prodded and guided to add a post this month. I no longer make a list of resolutions at the end of/beginning of a year, feeling that the list [...]
The Risk of Asking . . . and of Getting an Answer
During a recent telephone conversation with a very dear friend of mine in Atlanta (where I used to live), I was reminded about the risk of asking God/Spirit/The Universe a question. The answer can be yes, it can be no, or it can be maybe/not now. I’ve certainly heard (and learned!) that lesson before, but it [...]
The Green-eyed Monster
Like most Southern ladies, I’ve been taught not to compare myself to others. Someone will always be smarter, richer, better looking than I am. No two people are on the same path. Someone else’s success doesn’t equal my failure. And so on. But the other day, I slammed face-first into an intimate comparison. An old [...]
Today’s Risk: Lessons of a Birthday!?!
What an interesting day, a birthday can be. My friend Jim counsels me to “live into the feeling…” and so on this my 54th birthday, I am going to try living into this very feeling for this very year and hopefully even beyond. And I would certainly call that a risk. This lesson learned from my [...]
A Change of Mind and Heart
Well, my risk from last month didn’t turn out exactly as I had planned. When I told my friends I wouldn’t be coming to the bridge week-end in the spring, you never heard such a uproar. All the while I kept insisting they just go on without me. That just wasn’t going to fly. The [...]
Saying no
I am not the outgoing type who draws people’s attention. I am the quiet person who loves to hear people’s stories and will eventually share mine in a small group setting. So making friends is not always quick or easy, particularly as I have aged and became a stay-at-home mom. But, I have met some [...]
The Bridge Weekend
For a good many years now I have been going away bi-annually for the weekend with a group of women. We get together to play bridge, talk, eat, drink wine and just enjoy each other. The group was started by women who went to the same church in Houston. One of my best friends was [...]
Asking for what I want
Once I had an employer who told me that he always gave me what I asked for, because he had learned that I only asked for what I needed, and that granting my request would be good for the company, as well as good for me. I wish everyone felt that way, because I believe [...]
Risking My Art and My Trust
After completing an “Artist’s Way” group with Laura I reached out to an old friend who was starting to try his hand at visual arts – he’s a poet and a writer. We converse every week about our art in a mutually supportive way as suggested by Laura and Julia Cameron. We had to have [...]
appropriate risks ?
I don’t know who wrote this short bit of wisdom, but it popped into my mind the first time Laura mentioned Risk-a-Day to me, so I searched until I found it. To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. [...]
