Just go love…

Seen and unseen

So much of our lives are tucked away in the places where nobody thinks to look. I am a pretty open person, and I share things easily.  But we all have nooks and corners, pockets and hiding places that never see the light of day, don’t we? Sometimes the worst of us hides there. Sometimes it’s just our quiet thoughts. Sometimes the best of us even sneaks away there, but in the end it’s all still hiding and it takes...

Christmas Eve reminders and happy wishes

It’s Christmas Eve! All our planning, shopping, organizing have all come down to this day, like every year before it.  It’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy.  No more fussing, no more running around.  If it didn’t get done, leave it. I promise with enough love and Christmas spirit in the room, no one will notice what you didn’t finish off. That being said, it would be great to not blow it on the...

Conference crazy? Choose calm instead.

It’s conference time again, and whether you are a Toronto local or flying in for the weekend, you know it feels a little crazy.  I’m coming in for She’s Connected 2012 and Blissdom Canada ’12 and can’t believe it’s already October.  How did it come so quickly? I’m new to SCCTO, but this is my third Blissdom Canada.  Want to read my recap of Blissdom Canada ’11?  I’m...

It’s October, and my calendar is laughing

  Sometimes life gets busy.  Sometimes the things we need to do pile higher than the hours available to do them.  It happens. And it’s happening here.  Not a single thing I can complain about, yet the days are whipping by.  I can’t be sure, but I think the calendar is laughing at me.  We are six weeks into our new house.  Most of the important settling in was done in the first three weeks.  But that devil routine...

Thank you…and you…and you

There are days when I randomly feel thankful for many things.  You know, those days when you suddenly realize how much you depend on the grace of friends and strangers, and feel lucky for those around you who put in the effort, day after day. Sometimes I’m thankful for things too – like September, the blue sky against yellow leaves, the neighbourhoods whose leaves skitter in the wind and pile up in so much...

Would you take it all off for a good cause? What ...

No?  How about taking some of it off?  We’ll get to why a little later, first I want to talk about health.  Our health.  Women’s health.  You, me, your sister, your mom, your aunt, your best friend…and maybe someday, your daughter. As we get older and start to own our health as adults, there are a few spectres that loom more than others. Heart attack, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and cancer, and most...

Little hearts, wide open

I’ve been looking through pictures from my son’s birthday. He turned seven recently, and I’m still so amazed by him.  I know we all go through that initial swoon period where we are floored by our ability to create these small people.  I’m sure I’m supposed to be quite over it by now, and trust me, there are moments when I am so over it. But those are the moments when I forget all the good, all...

Precious cargo

It is the time of year when I look at my children and marvel. There will be birthdays, two.  There will be cakes, two.  There will quite possibly be pangs of the heart, many. For my babies will turn seven and three this fall, and though two small lives are more than I ever thought I would create, it twists a bit in my stomach to know that they are both moving through these young months and years so quickly. Time is a...

Love somebody little

Love comes into our lives in many forms, through many channels. If we are lucky, we love and are loved in return over and over from birth to our final days.  If we are blessed, we have many who want to share their love with us, who create for us a safe place with their love.  If we are wise, we are open to it, seek it, give it freely. Out of a sea of possibilities, one of the most touching kinds of love is that given and...