Happy New Year 2024!

Peace (especially peace), love, health, and happiness... those are my wishes for you for the next 365 days (and the subsequent ones as well). Make yourself as happy as you possibly can, do what makes your heart beat stronger or faster, do what makes you feel good, and make sure to rest, to turn off…

Do As You Are Told!

Ever heard that? Have you ever felt devalued because your opinion is not even heard, because people who don’t know what you know decide for you? It doesn’t matter if you know more than they do, that you know their decision is not the right one, that they are shooting themselves in the foot with…

Kicking the Hornet’s Nest

Quite a mental image to describe standing up for something that's right. I am not sure how it happened but it became more obvious in the last few years. Dissidence is no longer acceptable. Why? Why can't opposite ideas (or opinions, or choices) be discussed rationally? Iron sharpens iron; why can't it happen anymore? Critical…

Life is What Happens…

You know how we always make plans - especially those of us who live a busy life - and how very little of those plans actually come to pass? This is what the holidays have been for me. I had planned on catching up with my to-do list and get things done, on just feeding…

What a Year!

2022 has been high in action, higher in surprises (good and bad), but overall, I see two things... There is a solid foundation for hope, and the truth is coming up to the surface. Personally, I have gone through moments of hope, moments of worries, disappointment and bewilderment. I hope 2023 will elevate its vibration…

Looking Forward… Again!

This is a feeling I have not felt in a very long time. I was talking to my best friend - who happens to be my age - this weekend and casually asked her if we do something for our 50th birthday (next year!). A decade ago, we visited a great city wanting to make…

Unexpected Contact

Last week, something happened to me that has not happened in a long time, something that was exactly the reason I started this blog. I was at the movie theatre with my princess; and since she has a job, she pays for her ticket herself. The ticket was $10.75 so she got out $15. I…

A Sliver of Hope

Do you have the impression there is no coming back from the upheaval (hidden violence and drastic measures) that we lived under recently and still subjected to at various degrees today? Human beings are social creatures; we need relationships, we need friends, we need to share with one another simply to keep our own balance…

What is Right

I don't want to be moralistic here because this is beyond moral; it is about sacredness. How many of us take the people in our lives for granted? How many of us live in utter loneliness? When people want a place in your life, care for them. Regardless of wanting them or not, care for…

In a Spinning World

Since January, living is not for the faint-hearted individuals. First, a wind of freedom flew all across the globe and although it seems to have lost some of its momentum, it is still blowing. Now that February has come and gone, there is a war on the old continent that keeps everybody on edge. Stability…