There is a difference between leading and guiding. Leading is when someone or others are following someone or something else. I think of a beautiful metaphor of dancers. There is one leader and one follower. The leader is giving the energy they need to the follower in order for the follower to receive the signals and energy that they need to...
Open your Heart, Listen to Others
Hello~ This just came to me as I was reading a response from a woman on a Dawn Katar channeled message I posted on facebook this morning. There is something here about "opening my heart in the remembrance of Oneness," as this friend posted, and about the self-lessness of listening to others and hearing myself at the same time. Two things come to...
Friendship
Today, as I heard a peer coaching partner say something like, "Coaching is helping me become a better friend," I got something: Coaching IS helping me become a better friend. I know how to hold people as whole and resourceful. I know how to ask empowering questions. I know how to self manage (working on this one more and more!). I know how to...
Home is…
I am moving. Moving on, moving out, moving in. The other day, I was teaching a bunch of 7th & 8th graders the basic front to back salsa step. I said, "It's like you are starting from home," as I brought my hands up to rest on my heart. "This is your home. This is where you come from," as I emphasized our bodies as "home" with my hands....
The Seen and Unseen
reach out for support ask for it They are all there, here, waiting to be called upon, to be of service, to be on duty They want to support us, we are all in this together it could be your Great, Great, Great Grandmother watching over you, supporting your every move, knocking on your door, tapping on your shoulder when she sees you going astray....
Everyting is Everyting
Everyting is everyting. That’s what they say. I look at my parents, how did we get there? How are you ours? We don’t look the same! It is ALL the same. We are ALL the same, somewhere, somehow. everyting is everyting. Yes indeed it is. Similar to “same same, but different,” a COMMON phrase throughout South East Asia that I heard during my travels...
Abram
*Abram, where have you been all my life???!!! "Living mine," he said. I entered the premises and had trouble finding the door in to this facility where aged people live out the rest of their lives. I was there to teach a dance/movement class. I had no idea what to expect. There was a circle of armed chairs and one happy looking Italian woman with...
Treasure hunt
Life is like a treasure hunt.I ask myself, "What is the next step?"I hear a response: something that sounds like a b, hmmm, not sure what it is. B-something. Ahhhh, life is like a treasure hunt:I first give myself permission to stop and quiet down.I ask myself, “What is the next step?”I hear a response.It doesn’t make sense.I follow it.Leading...
IF the Lord is Willing…
I grew up hearing my parents say this. They still say it.The reverence, the trust in the Lord, a power greater than them surely had and has their best interest at heart.I never quite understood this. Well, that's not true. When I was younger, I felt like it was a guilt thing at first, like, don't get too excited because you never know whether...
Being Concise
How can I be concise?Speak my truth?Be heard?Simple:Speak my truthBe heard.