Tuesday Truth. Number 71. Resilience. That's what I've recently been learning on this journey of life. According to this article at the American Psychological Association website, Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress— In other words, how we "bounce back". [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 70. Last month, I shared a quote from Rumi in my Tuesday Truth #69. A call to hold space and listen. To move beyond "right" and "wrong". To meet in the field. I shared that I was planning to tend that field. Often these glimmers of wisdom I share are because they [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 69. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."-Rumi Today's truth is a reminder that beyond all the constructs, we are one. There are so many moments in life that define us individually. Moments that shape the direction of our thoughts, our motives, our actions... [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 68. There's just something about Nature, isn't there? Something that makes you breathe a little deeper, feel a little calmer, and find a little more joy in the present moment. When I am breathing in all the beauty that surrounds me, I am reminded that everything in Nature blossoms in its own [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 67. Well hello there!! If I haven't already seen you in my first post of 2021, Five Years of Blogging, let me just say... Happy New Year! I considered recycling the Tuesday Truth I shared at the beginning of 2019, Tuesday Truth #16, because I love that one so much. However, there [...]
Five Years of Blogging. First off. Happy New Year!! Sometimes it seems so wild to me that I've been here sharing parts of my life for so long. Today, Bedlam and Daisies turn five years old! 5 years! In the scheme of a lifetime a part of me thinks that five years sounds short, but [...]
I'm sure that most of us would agree that 2020 has mostly been a sh*t show. People have been sick, lost loved ones, lost jobs, and struggled with mental health. The pandemic has changed the entire way we live and interact. And for many it's not the only thing that has created struggles this year. [...]
"All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen."-Roald Dahl, Matilda Reading in 2020. Wow! 2020 sure was full of unexpected twists and turns! What started off as a "full speed ahead" year for me quickly become a year of "slowing down." Who would have thought [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 66. So much wisdom packed into one sentence. And Rumi says it so beautifully. "If everything around you looks dark, look again, you may be the light." 2020 has been a strange and trying year, to say the least. So I thought for my final Truth for the year, I'd leave you [...]
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”-Jhumpa Lahiri That quote holds so much truth! In a year when travel has been nearly nonexistent, I have traveled around the world, backward and forward through time, visited places conceived only in the realms of deep imagination, and have immersed myself deeply [...]
