If You Could Spare Some Tears by Beth Lord www.bethlord.com

To Remember All The Lives Lost on 9.11

Prayers to all the lost ones and their families.

Commit to loving you, your stories and your life so their legacy lives on in you.

Beth

Are You Suffering?

Most of us are, but we can’t admit it to ourselves. Suffering takes many forms, and for most of us it involves a world where change is constant, and the loss of people, treasured values, and a complex world is omnipresent. We don't like to admit this to our consciousness, that our hearts are hurting so we keep ourselves busy, get involved in perpetual motion and search for that physician, the nurse, the shaman or healer that is going to take this aching loneliness out of our bones.

Suffering happens with transitions to change. Since change is a constant, this suffering is painful to stabilize. Remember how long it took you to get over a loved one’s death? Or think of the first time you lost a loved one and reali Read More

Did You Do It?

Have you recorded stories you want to remember? You know we all have at least one good story. The legacy is important to remember. It is best remembered in a book because you can flip through the pages and remember the specific parts of these experiences. The heart of the stories is in these books.

And no, you may not have the time to transcribe, edit and format them in a book. But if you have recorded these stories, you can extrapolate the goodies when you have the time.  It is much easier to go off the recorded memories then to scratch your head over and over to remember the tidbits of information you thought you were going to remember if you sit down to write about it. Read More

Make Your Dreams Happen

It is Thursday night. I came home from school after a full day and went to bed for an hour;  my cat is sleeping on my arm. The sunlight is shining through on this gorgeous spring day.

I am doing a lot to make my dreams happen. Making this vision into reality requires me to self-care, so I don't burn out.

I have a sub-section meeting with a group I belong to - NW Ladies In Business.  I drag my weary-ass from the bed, feed the animals, grab some food as a snack to bring to the meeting. I am going. I am showing up to me and gathering community support.

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What Happens In Fifteen Minutes?

Tami and I are planning a weekend getaway, just us girls, to celebrate our sixtieth year.

She turned sixty last December, and I am becoming sixty at the end of July. We were first going to take a train down to California. And then we decided she could fly to Seattle and we would go away and have time to talk and be.

I’ve known Tami since I was four. When I think of Tami, I think of how I met her. I think of her older brothers and sisters. I think of her Mom. I think of us going downtown on the train, alone, to stay for the weekend with her Dad. I think of lots of overnights at her home, side by side reading Nancy Drew books. I think of when I had to move away in fifth gr Read More