Time to get out again!

I am excited to be going out next weekend to do some promoting of my book.

Will be at the Penticton BC's Farmers Market on Saturday Oct 1 with David Korinetz of Red Tuque Books.  I will join him there and have an opportunity to meet lots of people at their great market.

On Sunday, Oct 2, I will be at the Festival of the Grape in Oliver BC.  I finally get to go to this festival and will have a vendor table in amongst lots of other great products at the festival.  It will be a great day!

I'm so looking forward to both events!!

Love you Tilly!

We all have some weeks in our life that are hard to get through.  Last week we had to say good bye to our beautiful Scottie dog, Tilly.

I love Scottie dogs, they are loyal, loving, full of inner strength, and are gentle best friends.  Ours was sick but we didn’t know it until last week when it all happened.

She also had a bad few months in the winter that was unrelated to this that showed just how she took on a terrible painful crisis and showed so much strength, courage, determination, and kindness to those who had to look after her.

It is hard to tell others about what happened because even though some may have not even known her well, we connect to the loss, feel the sorrow, and go back to our own pet loss stories.  We share and cry together, and thank you because it helps. 

Please give your pets, family, and friends extra hugs ...you can tell them it’s from a Scottie girl named Tilly. 

Thanks.

Weekend of Friends and Meditation

We were going to go out camping in our little motor home last weekend but one thing led to another and we got two invitations out to friends for supper, and I saw an advertisement for a day of meditation on Sunday at the Buddhist centre.   I had been to a meditation there earlier in the year and welcomed the idea to go again.  This introductory course was about five sacred syllables that correspond to five chakras.

The advertisement said by chanting the sounds and focusing on the chakras location, we develop increasingly open presence with positive qualities.  These qualities were love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.  It said that these qualities then become a support and connection with self, deeper wisdom, and to our existence.

As Sunday was the 10^th anniversary of 911, the weekend would also be a time to remember and be aware of the many ongoing struggles still in the world, and how fragile our existence really is. 

The weekend was about connecting to love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, and it was also a time to remind myself to be thankful for all that I have in my life every day, and for all those who are part of my life. 

These positive energies are now with me to continue practicing and experiencing, and I hope the energies we felt and sent out yesterday in our meditation are now travelling to you and throughout the world.  

Four simple yet powerful words...

Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

Namaste. 

First year of blogging!

One Year, 17 Countries!

It’s been a year since I started creating this blog and thanks to Google for making it easy for me to do.   I've had lots of fun, and 54 posts later, I’m still learning.

Thanks so much to everyone who has visited it.  So far, there’s been visitors from 17 countries around the world, and I'm always excited when I see a new country appear on the list. 

I hope I don't miss anyone -  Thanks to Canada, United States, Malaysia, Germany, Japan, India, Australia, Pakistan, Austria, Finland, France, Israel, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

Wow, Wow, Wow!!!

Thank You...