So fellow travelers, today I’m taking a break from my own“ memoirs of a pandemic year” to honor a very special team of women and one very lucky dog. This is Sally. On March 8th, sweet Sally succumbed to congestive heart failure. This is her story, shared with permission of all the amazing earth angels […]
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The Error of Our Ways
So fellow travelers, much of the currently circulating narrative looks back on where we all were a year ago before “life as we knew” it changed so dramatically. The post I was crafting with a similar focus has a distinctly depressing tone and heaven knows I really do not want to add to the pervasive pandemic […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 8, 2021
https://dhrahalski86.com/the-error-of-our-ways/
Lanterns of Friendship
So fellow travelers, the cumulative effect of the year so far has been an emotional experience I can best describe as what happens right before a tsunami: One moment I am standing on the safe warm beach, wrapped in a blanket of sun infused happiness. Suddenly the ocean unnaturally recedes so far out it doesn’t […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on October 12, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/lanterns-of-friendship/
… on maintenance mode — Just Ponderin’
(Editors note: Guest Post from writer and friend Lisa Dingle- It says so well the reasons my own Thoughts on the Path have been on hiatus ) The Inn’s garden path, in maintenance mode this past week. A few seconds ago, I logged into this very space to write a new post and there was […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on August 29, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/on-maintenance-mode-just-ponderin/
On Freedom, Honor and Birds
So fellow travelers, until 1970 the traditional date of Memorial Day was May 30th and until this year, our tradition steeped village continued to celebrate Memorial Day on May 30th, Yep, regardless of what day of the week it fell on or what weather Mother Nature might throw at us, on said day, the village […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 30, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/on-freedom-honor-and-birds/
Of Squirrels and Hope
So fellow travelers, a key turning point in my adult life came when a meditation teacher gave me permission to stop “shoulding” on myself. Or as Master Yoda might put it “do or do not, that is all.” The fact is, current reality* leaves me little time and even less energy for writing. The amount […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 18, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/of-squirrels-and-hope/
I Lack Discipline? You Lack Compassion — My Zen Brain
Editorial note: Guest Post from a fellow writer and friend who nailed it on the head. Thanks Andy! A friend of mine sent me a link to a Facebook post that everyone should read. I’ve provided a screenshot of it here so you can read her words of wisdom. Now, I get it. The motivation […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 14, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/i-lack-discipline-you-lack-compassion-my-zen-brain/
Snow Quest
So fellow travelers, February turned into a long, dark month. Winter made a roaring comeback complete with winds howling in delight at our delusions of a “mild winter.” Even leap year’s extra day in this shortest of months seemed an added mockery. Displays of forced spring bulbs in my local grocery stores felt like false […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 8, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/snow-quest/
Insights for a New Decade
So fellow travelers, this has been a busier than usual holiday season for which I am grateful to have had a full two weeks off from work. In between road trips to visit family, I have managed to rearrange several rooms in our house. My efforts have allowed me to resurrect my pilates machine, reclaim […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on January 5, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/insights-for-a-new-decade/