We all have them. The things that we’re afraid of. Even when it seems irrational. And no, I don’t mean stuff like spiders. I mean things we know we should do and resist with every ounce of energy we have.
Category Archives: Personal Development
I Don’t Have a Right to Write This Post
I was going to write about the power of the pause. Leaving space between stimulus and response. Then something happened, and I just didn’t have the heart to write about that. Because I failed to live that today.
In a big way.
Out of Death Springs Life
We’re riding through Yellowstone Park. We’ve never been here before. We’ve imagined its grandeur, anticipating breathtaking beauty everywhere we turned. We drive through the old stone gate. We’re in the park. And now we see what it really looks like.
(c) Kathleen Thompson
A bunch of charred trees.
Is it Okay to Be Yourself?
Not long ago, a friend wrote a long post on Instagram that said he doesn’t believe people should be themselves. That authenticity is a buzzword these days, and it’s overrated. The conversation that post stimulated was interesting.
Reclaiming the Garden Part 9 – Breathing Room
Yes, I’m still at it. Still working to reclaim the garden behind my house. If we were restoring a house, we’d say we were still in the “demo” phase. Getting rid of what doesn’t belong so I can replace it with something that does.
(c) Kathleen Thompson. There's space like this all over the garden.
And now I can see the effect of decisions I made years ago.
Remembering 9.11: Running Toward the Building
A few weeks ago, my friend Sarah and I went to the 9/11 museum. It’s built underground, on the actual site of Towers 1 and 2. There was a hushed silence as we all remembered what it was like that awful day. When the world as we knew it changed.
Reclaiming the Garden Part 6 – Clearing the Vines
As you know, I’ve been slowly (very slowly) reclaiming a garden in my back yard. And I’ve found regular weeds, super-sized weeds with deep roots, and vines. Nasty vines. I think they might be bittersweet. They’ve wrapped themselves around everything, somehow even managing to reach up to tree branches overhanging the garden and pulling them down. And wherever they touch the ground, they seem to root.
Reclaiming the Garden Part 5 – Finding More of the Path
In the last episode, I found one stone of a path I had built through the garden. It was exciting to rediscover this path. But there I was – balanced on one foot – looking for the next step.
Reclaiming the Garden Part 4 – Uncovering the Path
You read in my first post about reclaiming my garden that I planned to start in the middle and work to the right. Then you walked with me as I found buried treasure, only to have the deer eat it by the next day.
Reclaiming the Garden – Where to Start?
I finally did it. After weeks of looking at my back garden, I decided to tackle clearing it out. Reclaiming it as a garden, rather than just give it over to the weeds. And what weeds there are. I don’t even know what most of them are. I just know they’re nasty. Tall, matted root structure, and aggressive. Some even have huge thorns, and other are vines that twist around branches of what would otherwise be lovely bushes, choking the life out of them.
