Time: Friend or Foe?

Time can be seen as a friend when we have enough of it to do what we want. It can also be seen as a foe that keeps us nailed to tasks that we must do. Rather than looking at it from the point of view that we GET to, rather than HAVE to, we look at our daily tasks as though something outside ourselves is pulling the strings. That is the ultimate stress, to feel controlled by a force bigger than us, rather than seeing the force within us giving us all we need to do what we wish. Choosing to use small increments of time on things to our best advantage is a key to living stress free. . . . → Read More: Time: Friend or Foe?

Water Washes Worry Away

Worry is one of those nagging thought processes that affect us waking and sleeping.  It’s a toss and turn night when worry about the day’s mistakes keep me up longer than I want to be awake.  Worrisome feelings interrupt my sleep with a dream that’s way too realistic or a nudge from my partner saying you’re . . . → Read More: Water Washes Worry Away

Longer Days, More Time?

When spring is really here, the first rose blooms. Then light stays out longer.  Darkness delays coming with dusk notifying the birds to go home and the bats to come out.  Dusk is a time I like to sit out on my porch in the silence of the change from light to dark.  It is in . . . → Read More: Longer Days, More Time?