I have a confession to make. I hated 2009. The year was a mesh of turbulence, stress and internal agony. The year through I felt as if I was consistently coming up with the short end of the stick. Don’t get me wrong I pushed forward like a bull demanding respect, refusing to fall into the stagnant patterns tearing away at my consciousness, but the grueling battle was all up hill. Far from what I had imagined when I made the decision to move back to the US in spring 2008. [...]
Why do we beat ourselves up? We mortals who claim a higher consciousness than the animals that live here on earth with us yet, with all of our fancy talking and uber intelligence I’ve never encountered a fish who didn’t believe he could swim. Or the bird who successfully said, “Look, Mom, Dad, I’m not ready for such a grand leap of faith, so why don’t we wait another couple of years till I’m ready? I may fail. It’s a cat-eat-bird world out there and I just can’t risk it!” [...]
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