Author Archive | gunilla

Rest and wrest, two words that sound the same. One refreshes and assembles, the other separates. To wrest something from another something takes effort. Do we divide to conquer, or do we include and come to more wholeness? I’d like to mull this in July as we celebrate freedom on the fourth of July Phrases […]

I have a birdwatching friend who can locate and recognize a bird hidden in thick foliage just by hearing its song. Every bird has its own voice, its own song. So do we. “Our Song” is my summer subject. Phrases posted on Facebook, June 2024 No one can be you and you can’t be anyone […]

Change is always, always, always happening!! The “yet to be”is evolving even in our sleep. Sometimes I like to bless what is coming into my life before I know what it is. Call it a kind of inner hospitality. Phrases posted on Facebook May 2024 It doesn’t matter whether we engage with something of no […]

The blank page waits. So often I am faced with not knowing, waiting for an answer, something I can make a connection to. That word seems fitting for an April mull. Phrases posted on Facebook April 2024 Have you ever met a person for the first time and felt immediately connected? No second guessing, just […]

Here in New England, March is the month between winter and spring. You never know what you are going to get – sleet one day or a sunny warm day the next. This is just one situation where I have to be patient but there are many others. I imagine it is the same for […]

February is the month we celebrate love. That’s no mistake as it is the coldest time of the year at least in New England Love is probably everyone’s middle name. However it expresses itself in our lives it has companions like anger, loss, disquiet and pain. How could we learn to love in depth without […]

This first month of the new year l am drawn to share little nuggets . . . good quotes to keep in the heart pocket to learn from and to share. Phrases posted on Facebook, January 2024 Here is a wonderful nugget from Pema Chodron. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the […]

In these of times of conflict and suffering experiencing inner peace is more crucial than ever. Add the stress of the holidays, and it is even more precious. It’s the subject for December. It requires embracing being despite our difficulties, perhaps even because of them. It is in our very being that we can find […]

Our lives are made of little things that matter, but do we notice them and appreciate them enough? It’s a good subject for the Thanksgiving month. Phrases posted on Facebook November 2023 It’s early. An elderly man at the bottom of the stairs leading into the local Y grins at me and says a warm […]

Things are constantly ending and beginning. The door to one thing shuts and then another door opens to something not yet.  How familiar then is the saying that when one door closes another opens. The key to the opening of that new door is full acceptance of the shut door and to stop hoping for […]