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Category Archives: Re-Build your Life
Suitcase Whisperer
Lessons to a frequent traveler from her suitcase.
Posted in AHA Moments, Books, careers, Creativity, flow of life, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Heart, inspiring through fiction novels, Integrating lifes purpose through art, Intuition, life's purpose, Magical moments, Mara Purl, Metaphors, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, mission and core purpose in life, musician-singer-songwriter, Novel series, Nurturing the soul, Opening up to New Worlds, Personal Essays, Power of the universe, Publishing, Re-Build your Life, relationships, self-growth, synchronicity, Transformation, transformation through AHA moments, Travel, Uncategorized, Women's Fiction, Writing
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June Gloom and Magical Moments
For those of us who live in California coastal regions, this time of year is known as June Gloom. While other parts of the country are enjoying the first blush of summer with its dreamy warmth and slower pace, we often awaken to a heavy marine layer that keeps the landscape wrapped in a blanket for the first few hours of the day.
It’s not nearly as “gloomy” as it sounds. After all, “sunny California” gets plenty of bright days. This may sound perverse—maybe it’s my Celtic roots—but I sometimes reach a point of finding the succession of unchangingly sunny days oppressive, and begin to long for rain.… Read more
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Love the “Aha!”
I’ve been working on a list of favorite things: walks along the beach, walks in the mountains, walks through museums . . . okay, there’s a walking theme here, I get that.
But then I wondered what else do these favorite activities have in common? And it occurred to me it’s the moments where an insight flashes, as though someone suddenly turned on a light bulb.
When these moments occur, maybe I’ve have been puzzling over why a character in my current novel travels to a certain location. Or I might be intrigued by someone’s unexpected reaction to something I’ve written.… Read more
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Mother – Daughter Love
Listening. That's what transforms the complexities of the Mother-Daughter relationship.
Posted in Books, Creativity, flow of life, forgiveness, Heart, inspiring through fiction novels, Love, Mara Purl, Milford-Haven Novels & Stories, mission and core purpose in life, Nurturing the soul, of lives through books, Personal Essays, Re-Build your Life, relationships, self-growth, Transformation, Women's Fiction, Writing
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Eggs in One Basket
There’s only one day of the year when we’re allowed to put all our eggs in one basket: Easter. For those of us who indulge in Easter Egg Hunts, or perhaps plan them for younger members of the community, the object of the game is to race around the garden finding as many colorful eggs as possible and collect them in a festive basket.
The rest of the year, we’re admonished not to follow the practice of placing all our eggs—a metaphor for hopes, plans, or expectations—in one basket—a metaphor for person, object, or project.
There was a time I probably took that advice too much to heart.… Read more
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Go With the Flow
FLOW can be active, rather than passive, when we use it as a metaphor to see what's flowing in our lives, and what's not, because it's frozen, diverted, or swirling into energy-sucking funnels.
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Aftershocks and Seismic Creep
Seismic plates shift violently when there's resistance in the faultline. But in one area of the San Andreas, there's no resistance at all, and thus no earthquakes. Can we examine our hearts to see what we're resisting?
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Earthquake Healing on Faultline
Our hearts are broken for the people in Japan. While we think of ways to help earthquake victims, perhaps we can think metaphorically and use forgiveness to heal fault lines in ourselves and others.
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Recapture One Hour of Daylight
Your heart knows that devoting one hour to caring and nurturing for yourself can make a difference in your life.
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Don’t Miss Your Leap
Leaping is about two things: using your head for good timing, and using your heart to summon courage.
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