Angle of Lean

With 360 degrees to choose from, we all have differing angles of lean on everything from child rearing, to acceptable investment risk. Does red work with pink? Is peanut butter and jam the most complete food ever made?

Since learning that the brain, only 2% of the body mass, uses 20% of the blood flow, I’ve stopped trying to control all these thoughts running madly through my life. The silent judgements of myself and others, the shoulds and musts and wants. I’ve just tossed it all up and said, “I surrender”.

I Am My Valentine

Valentine’s Day has come and gone – blissful, painful or ignored, I’ve learnt one key lesson.  No matter who was in my life on February 14th, I always woke up on the morning of the 15th with the one person who needed my love the most – me.

Wisened with age and a few colossal mistakes, I know now it’s the small daily acts of  kindness that create that happy inner me that can look squarely in the mirror and repeat out loud, “ I love myself, I love myself” and not cringe when I say it. That doesn’t come from anyone else.  I also know that I can’t expect anyone else to love me more than I love myself.  Getting SELFish means just that – taking care of the self.