Posts by Sally

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan   Oh how I love this book of mothers and daughter’s lives and relationships and what we think we know and the chasms of what we don’t. I was first introduced to it in Canada 20 years ago. I reread it recently on kindle and just had to…

Get creative – you have nothing to lose and everything to gain   It’s that time of year again … Artists and crafts folk are opening their studios and exhibiting across the counties to give the likes of you and me a taste of their diverse creative talents. Having been lucky enough to be immersed…

Steps for Radical Self Care     When I talk of Radical Self Care learning to saying “No” comes high on the list of things to do in order to nurture yourself because it’s almost as if many of us never learned how.     When awareness of the possibility does strike it kind of…

Zen Inspiration A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.  He fled.  The tiger after him.  Coming to a precipice he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge.   The tiger sniffed at him from above.  Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another…

I received these words from someone the other day:     “How annoying to get to the end and feel like you never dared to be your true self – that you never lived loud and hearty, that you played safe – only to end up dead anyway!”     It ties in perfectly with…