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It was April 29, 1992. I was living in Los Angeles. If that date does not stand out for you, it will after you finish reading this. If you were there, you remember. If you weren’t, it’s time to wake up.

My job as a Travel Agent was just a few blocks away from home. It was payday, and I was able to leave work early that day. I walked from the office to the bank in the California sunshine, enjoying the breeze. I don’t remember what I was thinking about, and whatever it may have been was quickly ov...

The guidelines for printing were set way back when the printing press was invented. There are no exceptions to the publishing rules.

As a Book Trade Professional Reviewer, I provide reviews on unreleased manuscripts (galleys) for Publishing companies such as Hay House, Sounds True and Shambhala. I have review many books, and have had the pleasure to read new books by authors including Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, James Van Praagh, Ani Pema Chodron. Yesterday, I received approval to review The … Continue reading Book Review Update

With such a tremendous loss in California due to the wildfires, it is easy to write off the importance of the wineries and the losses they are suffering. After all, wine is luxury. Please do not have a lack of concern for the wineries in these fires. We need our vineyards in those wildfire prone… Continue reading Wineries and Wildfires

Originally posted on zombieresident:
Celtic symbols were used as a protection tool, to infuse courage to warriors, to defeat their enemies, to gain love or to mark the way forward. The Celts transmitted their knowledge through engravings, some of which have come down to us thanks to which they were carved from hard materials like…

This wonderful quote is imprinted on a pewter wine charm that currently hangs on my desk lamp. As I gaze upon it writing this, I reflect upon last Thursday when I found myself in a meeting with the owner of a new wine bar that is opening up in my town. It’s all the buzz… Continue reading Wine Is Bottled Poetry

Ah, the blank page. How it stares back at us. I have been away for a long time. Never very far, occasionally peeking in to see what others are doing. Away mostly because I needed to recharge and the only way to do that was to step back. Way back. Then learn to walk a different… Continue reading Me and Sophie: Walking

I first became acquainted with Pema Chodron in 1999, when I was going through spiritual crisis. I had gone through a divorce and lost my mother to cancer within the same month. I was ungrounded, and for the second time in my life, I stopped speaking. Then one day, I snapped out of it and… Continue reading The Compassion Book – Ani Pema Chodron

Rise sisters, rise. #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/gm1MDSfThl — Cairenn Rhys (@SpiritedQuill) March 8, 2017 Filed under: Community Tagged: inspiration, international women's day, Light, love, postaday

There is no better way to begin this except to say that I have missed you. As I was so wonderfully reminded of this evening, in a moment of unconscious sharing of oneself during a pause in slinging vino, I just need to move forward once again, and that means putting the past behind. I…