real, raw motherhood
My yoga teachers have been offering me wonderful food for thought lately. Here is a paraphrase of a powerful nugget I heard in class yesterday: “Let go of expectations, of how you think things should be and embrace what is. Trust that you are perfect as you are right now.”We’ve all been told: “Nobody’s perfect”.…
“Why am I not good? Why am I not perfect?”, my daughter lamented the other night. “You ARE good but you’re right, you are not perfect. That’s because nobody’s perfect. Your Daddy is not perfect. I am not perfect…But… You know what I’m perfect at? I’m perfect at making progress. That’s all that’s required. To…
I have just finished reading The Paper Bag Christmas. With each chapter, my heart swelled up until it finally burst open and I lay sobbing in my bed. A Christmas miracle had jumped from the pages into my heart. I sensed my true essence. I wanted to bottle it up for safe keeping. I wanted to…
This anniversary morning came and we took no notice. The iphone reminded us: three years ago today, I dropped him off at Cedar Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills, California, where a surgeon would remove all 5 feet of his large intestine. Life without a colon is not something you can imagine or prepare for. Forget…
It’s the end of the day and tonight, unlike so many other nights, I am not deep to the bone tired. Tonight, I feel great. I’m sitting on my lanai sipping a glass of wine. A gentle breeze sways the sheer white curtains my husband helped me install yesterday. The Christmas lights we hang year-long…
Life is good!
Imagine how thinking and saying those words might impact your life. How you might act differently, carry yourself, interact with your world and the people in it. How you might feel…
Today is 02/10/2018 and I predict that stress will kill me one day. The worst kind of death possible. A terrible agony that will have started long before my final breath. I’ll be 42 in a month and I have been stressed ever since I can remember. There is a photo of me as a…
I went from one tropic (Capricorn) to another (Cancer). I moved from the French state of La Reunion to the American state of Hawaii. Once an island girl, always an island girl. A new generation is now following in my footsteps.
My husband’s father just passed away. He had been married 65 years. He had 4 children, 5 grandchildren and 1 great-grand child. What a great legacy! He would have been 84 next month and though it’s still sad, it’s a lot easier to say goodbye to someone who’s had a long productive life. Unfortunately death…
I was 34 and married twelve years before I became a mother. We had wanted that baby and carefully planned for it. Pregnancy was wonderful. Labor and delivery, something I look back fondly on. We brought home a newborn with a mild case of jaundice and, for the first week, all she did was sleep.…