2024 November

Honest Again

I am still steeped in the questions and thoughts around the idea of being honest with oneself. My first love was a guy who was an alcoholic. I attended AA meetings with him and was determined to be there and to help him break through and stay sober. During our time together I knew I […]

Honesty 2

I put “Honesty” in my jar ten years ago to help keeping myself on track. It felt easy to me, if I would face the word each morning, I would stay true to my heart. Right? (read the previous post to catch up on what lead to this) This simple word wasn’t as easy as […]

Buying beads in 2014

The bead practice

The bead practice In August me and Mhairi celebrated the ten-year-anniversary of our bead movement. It made me long to revisit who I was back when we started, what my need with the practice was, and where I stand with it today. And I’ve had a growing desire to start to write about it again.  […]

Honest

Ten years since we started the bead movement and its been honestly a life changing experience. It has built a frame work for what I think. Even with the beads its amazing how quickly I can live as if I have forever and so the basic thought of ‘spending’ a bead each day is necessary […]