This is the shake up that we needed to wake up. We will not fear. Together we will do more than survive this. We will create something new.

Sometimes life has its way with us. Sometimes it's painful. Most times we don't ask for it. Always there is a lesson to be learned.

Okay, I admit, after writing This Thanksgiving & Winter is Coming, I felt obligated to write about Christmas. So, I'll be nice. Bah Humbug.

Winter is Coming. Make it about taking the time to love on you. Snuggle up and be in the warmth of your own glow.

It is a day, one day, to honor and respect "collectively" those friends and family who are no longer in the body but live on in memory.

Call it unique, call it your crazy, call it your you. I call it your gift to the world. OR call it your special kind of beautiful. Why not?

Sometimes you cannot forgive. Some things are unforgiveable; but letting go, that is in the power of you. It has the power to set you free.

When you feel alone and vulnerable, and when your strength is gone remember that you are a gift to this world and it's your turn to be here.