Without Alcohol I am back in 12-Step rooms. I wrote two blogs recently, related to a specific 12-Step program but have unpublished them to honor the 12-Step – 11th Tradition: Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films….
Tag: Gratitude
55 Rules For Love – Rule # 48 – Be Grateful
Gratitude Is The Opposite of Taking Each Other For Granted I asked my husband Michael his thoughts on this rule. He said sometimes you need to pause and reflect on the reasons why you need to be grateful, because gratitude is the opposite of taking each other for granted. Gratitude Is Seeing and Appreciating What…
Just For Today – I Will Be Grateful For My Many Blessings
COVID – The Dystopian Novel Recently, with the number of COVID cases on the rise in my hometown province of Nova Scotia, and the start of another lockdown, life feels a bit like a dystopian novel – having to follow rules enforced by the government to help keep us safe from a virus that is…
Just For Today – I Will Be Grateful For My Many Blessings
Moments Just for today, I am grateful for moments this week that made me smile, including these recent pictures of my husband jumping out of a perfectly good airplane! I’ll always be a bit of a giddy, wide-eyed girl – in awe of his skydiving career! I hope you find moments today that you are…
The Art of Stillness Within: Learning To “Just Be” With Myself
June, 2019 my husband and I repatriated back to Canada. Since then, a lot has happened. So much so, I recaptured the events of the entire year in a blog I wrote a few months ago, on my 51st birthday! Click on the link below to read about it: Today is my 51st Birthday! Reflections…
Just For Today – I Will Be Grateful For My Many Blessings
Minimization With all the suffering in the world, especially now with COVID-19, sometimes it seems trivial to have personal dilemmas that cause stress. Especially if I’m virus free and relatively financially secure. I think of couples who live an exceptionally wealthy life, where others might look at them and say – what do you have…
Halifax to Campbell River – March Break and Beyond as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic
March Break – 14th-22nd For March Break, I traveled with our dog Pooh Bear from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island, British Columbia to be with my husband Michael, who is readying our home to put on the market. The talk of the virus was everywhere during my flights. I washed my hands so many times…
Just For Today – I Will Be Grateful For My Many Blessings
Just for today, I am grateful for a new day – a fresh start. Some days are sunshine with clear blue skies and lots of laughter! Other days, I am banging my head against a wall because it is a hot mess! After a hot mess day, I look forward to a good night’s sleep,…
Just For Today – I Will Be Grateful For My Many Blessings
Just for today I am grateful for green trees and the stillness of the lake. Just for today I am grateful for little hummingbirds att the feeder. Just for today I am grateful for the rising sun and the clear blue sky. S, ❤️
Mararrikulam North, Kerala, India – Teaching Me About Gratitude and the Essence of Beauty
I’ve been struggling the last few days during our third of six weeks in this small, southwestern coastal village in Kerala, because I’m missing the western standards of cleanliness I’m accustomed to with the added ugliness of garbage littering the sides of roads and beaches. It’s not like I didn’t know India was this way….