Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day. I noticed that there are two Valentine camps. One group that refuses to participate in a “made up” consumer driven day, and everyone else that loves those heart shaped jube jubes and muppet valentines cards. Nothing says love like a note from Ms. Piggy. Sure there are 363 other days in the year that you could give flowers or chocolates, but how many days does it happen? It is an easy to get right. Its the same day every year and even the gas stations were selling flowers today. It is the smallest things that count, and one big day over looked that can hurt the most. If you forgot someone you love today, then you have the next 363 days to make it up. Karma Sister rule: Appreciate the ones you love everyday and a little bit extra today

drink in the moment

Tonight I watched the Grammy Awards with the girls.  Well, they watched and I drifted in and out.   “Someone” was doing the laundry and making lunches.    I am not sure who little Wayne's stylist is but he looked like he woke up from a nap in his PJ’s and stepped on stage.   Adele is a favorite in this house and we were ecstatic as we watched her accept 6 Grammies for her album that was “born out of a rubbish relationship”.  She turned great heart ache into a music masterpiece.   The most powerful the moment of the night was after she had finished singing rolling in the deep and she just stood there and drank in the standing ovation from the crowd. Somewhere deep inside a voice was telling her to slow down and remember the moment.   Rhianna, Drake, Stevie Wonder and numerous other award winning artists were on their feet, cheering.   Thanks for the lesson tonight Adele,   drink in the moments that count.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr5JkOc6rd0

Leo Moon and Phil

There is the most intoxicating moon in the sky.  As I hit the soccer mom trail tonight a Phil Collins song came on the radio “in the air tonight”.  In the first two lines  “I can feel it coming in the air tonight. Hold on...   I’ve been waiting for the moment for all my life.. hold on”   It sent shivers up my spine.  Music is a powerful tool, and I can always find some wisdom in a song.   Phil made me think about why are we all waiting for change.   There will never be a cosmic shake up unless we create it in our own lives.   Moments somehow will turn into years.   I never want to look back and wonder where my life went.   To quote the Dahai Lama “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risks”.   And sometimes the pull of a very powerful Leo Moon.   Makes me want to howl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA&feature=BFa&list=TLYJF5AsJWb2w&lf=artistob&shuffle=428301

The lesson in cancer.

Cancer is one of those diseases that every family has been touched by.  I have a young cousin in war.  When the diagnoses comes down,  we looked for reasons why.   She lives a healthy lifestyle, she is kind, and loving.   Why do bad things happen to good people?   My yogi brain goes to there is a lesson for her in the illness.  It just makes me feel better.  I imagine a great big door swinging open and there is this incredible life full of butterflies and waterfalls when her treatment is done.    My mother battled cancer and I know she looks at the world with different eyes.  Mom has this saying “it’s not cancer” when anything goes wrong.  And she is right.  Late for work, flat tire, or your roof fell in?  It is still not cancer.   With this recent sad news,  it is a reminder for me to slow down and stay close to those I love.    Maybe battling her way back to health is the lesson.    She is touching everyone around her with the reminder,  life is precious.   Jo,  your a powerful teacher.

Jumping out of the box

The greatest and scariest thing about doing something completely new is that there is a learning curve.  Sometimes I wonder how I can ever remember everything that I am suppose too and then there are small brief moments that it all just sinks in.   I have emerged myself into learning, and anything that can help me get Karma Sisters off the ground.  Last week I took a sales course “how to close in a elevator”.  There was that moment I had to explain what I was creating and it had to be in 30 seconds and in front of owners of actual business.    That is climbing out of my suburbia mom box.  I am not sure where all these small steps are taking me, but I keep reminding myself I don’t need to know, I just need to climb.  

Procrastination

Procrastination steals energy from our days. With the world speeding up and more on the list of things to do, it is so easy to put those nagging hard to make phone calls to the side.   When the paperwork and the laundry pile up it brings “overwhelmed”.    

This is the sprinkle of drama that we add to our lives.    Take the drama shaker away and work on that one nagging job.   I have included this video to help you get motivated or want to go to a french restaurant for Les grenouilles 

http://www.flickspire.com/m/IAAW/EatThatFrog?id=~Contact.Id~

The little white lie

Oh the little white lie.   We say them everyday.  Last week I watched a video about the concept of not lying, for any reason.  Stuck in traffic?  Probably not.  Missed your call?  pushed ignore.   There is a freedom in telling the truth.   I started to notice when my lips wanted to tell the smallest untruth.   I figured out that I am the most untruthful when I say  “ I can’t”  which means “I don’t want too”.    Lets face it, if we really wanted to do something we figure out a way.   The great thing about being 43 is I know what I want and I don’t need to explain it.   The other problem with being 43 is sometimes I just forget what I decided on.  Here is something called the mindful smack, its a great video blog on this very concept which got my lying radar up.    Enjoy.  http://vimeo.com/30905771