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Continuity
Thanksgiving has always been “my” holiday, I love seeing family ad friends around the table, I love the process of cooking and baking old favorites and experimenting with new things. Menu planning often includes sifting through a pile of Thanksgiving-themed cooking magazines looking for that special “something” my guests will enjoy. Not sure whether that…
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Decompressing
I long for the ability to decompress, to be able to take even a moment and let go of all the obligations and the stress, of the endless list of things that have to be done or worried about or figured out. I have, only half jokingly, said that I think I came from the…
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As If
It is easy to look at someone else’s life and think they’ve got it all figured out. It’s easy to think that everything works for them while nothing feels like it’s working for you. It’s easy, and maybe it’s human nature, but it’s wrong. Pretty much always wrong. I had a conversation this week with…
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Wearing Pink
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, it’s the time we celebrate survivors and the time we remind ourselves that prevention can save lives. There’s lots of pink and lots of events where we can honor the journey we have survived or honor the lives of those whom we have lost. But the message is much…
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Transformation
I’ve been thinking about the concept of transformation. The word and the concept feel sort of magical to me. It’s the caterpillar becoming a butterfly and the ugly duckling the beautiful swam and it’s the change we sometimes see when someone’s face alights with a smile that lights up a room. But is it really…
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Doing Hard Things
So much of the direction of our life reflects our personality. We see it in our relationships, in our work, in our choices. We play our roles in life firmly based on who we are and who we have always been. That’s not to say we can’t learn and grow and change along the way.…
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From Generation to Generation
By the time I was born, both of my grandfathers had been gone for many years. My paternal grandmother died when I was a year old and my maternal grandmother turned 80 when I was a toddler. I believe she’d understood English fully, and likely spoke it well in younger years but, by the time…
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Letting Go and Holding On
One of the absolute highlights of my work life is having the opportunity to teach yoga to the elders who live in the communities where I work. We do chair yoga and, especially in the long term care setting, almost all of my yogis are in wheelchairs. I will tell you, without question, that these…
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Doing What’s Right
For those of us of the Jewish faith, we are about to begin a New Year. It is a time, as with the secular New Year, when we reflect on the year that is ending and the year that is ahead. In our Jewish tradition, we specifically focus, during the ten days between the New…
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In the Wee Hours
Sleeping has never been one of my abilities. I’m that light sleeper who hears every sound and wakes up and then struggles, often unsuccessfully, to try and go back to sleep. I’m up early every day, and it I make it to 5 am on the weekend I feel as if I’ve slept in! In…
With a Full Heart
Reflections on Leadership and Life
With a Full Heart 