Updating is always dicey because life moves so fast.

On Thursday I will attend a seminar on grief : before and after the loss.

On Thursday next week I will interview for training in the Kaiser Hospice program as a bereavement counselor. Last summer I completed training as a hospice respite care provider, and I am currently an "unpaid employee" for ( Read more... )

And it might be long lived ( Read more... )

About age 9 ( Read more... )

It seems I am not a candidate for a regular posting, LiveJournal-as-lifestyle.

My sporadic, "here we go, I can DO it," phases never produced more than four months of consistent posting since my first entry in October of 2002. And now here I am just over 2 1/2 years passed-by of these, "I can do it," efforts ( Read more... )

I am considering seeds I plant in my life. I consider the thoughts and feelings which I live out in any "today," that will bear fruit in the coming weeks and months.

I read a piece that reminded me: what we know of (and think of) our selves, and how we view our world from that self-knowledge, will precisely be expressed in our lives, in ( Read more... )

These days I am simply:

Hanging out

Pulling weeds (of life)

Walking the dog

Juicing Vegetables

Reading books

Growing older.

Some life-passages are less Life-Friendly than others ( Read more... )

Today I went to the dojo where Reed used to do Aikido. I was involved for a few months in 2001, but being on the mat brought out so many emotions I would have to stay off the mat and not practice, sometimes for a whole month, to work out the residual effects. So I don't really consider that I was a practitioner ( Read more... )

Going on a two week lj hiatus.

Ya'll have fun now, ya hear?

Number One: Wow! (about yesterday's open arms and hearts.)

Number Two: Either listen to this song clip, or download it (if you have iTunes):
Aad Guray Nameh (Fourth Track in this link and on the album, "Dakshina"This song was the initiating event for yesterday's melting heart. It is now representative of blessing and gratitude I feel for this ( Read more... )