Suzanne

The drawing tries to trick you:  Is it a vase or two faces?  It is both!  Now the question becomes:  Can you see both at the same time?  What challenges you in this regard is [...]

Struggling.  Does it get you anywhere?  Not when you are caught in a rip tide.  Struggling only exhausts you.  It may feel counter -intuitive, but when caught up in a maelstrom, relax.  You are not [...]

Gracious.  Here is a word with great meaning.  To be gracious, there is no righteousness.  There is no lording power over another.  Look at the root of the word:  Grace.  What do you feel when [...]

Have fun with life.  Yes, there are appropriate times to be serious, but how about a little silliness?  If you balk at this, you have drunk the adult Kool Aid.  Children play.  They laugh, they [...]

How easily you get caught up in the drama when you watch a well-crafted movie.  It is easy to forget there is anything around you.  And do you realize it is just how easily you [...]

It’s all relative. What you think is too much is not enough for another. What you think is truly awful is not so bad for another. Why is this? For you all have had your [...]

When another asks you to do a favor and to do so goes against your best judgment, what do you do?  Why is it challenging to say no?  First, examine why you are not saying [...]

How many of your thoughts are recycled?  Round and round they go, so familiar.  Even when they are not loving and kind to yourself or others, you cling to them, for they are comfortable.  Reach [...]

You are safe and you are loved.  What more could you ask for?  Oh, we know you could come up with a list, but let’s stick to the basics.  In the back of most human [...]

Do you ever stop and think of how you may wall yourself off from others simply by focusing on “I”?  There is one letter in this oh-so-isolating pronoun.  And “We”?  How many letters?  And “Us”?    [...]