How to choose your feelings – and be free!
October 19, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Practice
“You are annoying me” said my teenaged daughter to me the other night. I hear this often nowadays and I understand it’s quite common in parent/teen relationships. “I am not annoying you. You choose to be annoyed by me” I quipped. “Well, you are annoying” she retorted as she headed to the sanctuary of her […]
What’s keeping us from catching the squirrel?
October 18, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Release
The squirrel chase resumed in dogged earnestness (pun intended) this morning. The dogs know the spots where they are most likely to meet squirrels, so we now have a set route for the morning walk. I follow their lead. As I tried my best to keep up with them, being dragged at Bolt-like speed when […]
In futile pursuit of squirrels
October 17, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Observe
Nowadays, my dogs can’t wait to get outside for a walk. I realize that for them it is less about doing their “thing” and more about sighting and chasing the numerous squirrels that inhabit our complex. As the doggies set out on their squirrel-hunt, mama Cloud in the lead, you can see the anticipation in […]
What do you fear? There’s a name for it ……
October 14, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Release
I subscribe to Dictionary.com’s “Word of the Day”. Yesterday’s word fascinated me: triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun: Fear or a phobia concerning the number 13. I had never heard this word before, and couldn’t believe that this fear is so prevalent that there is a special word to describe it. Intrigued by this idea, I googled “names […]
A picture says a thousand words
October 13, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Love
This is a photograph taken by my Facebook friend, David Chen. The moment I saw this photo, I knew I had to share it on my blog. The scene speaks to me of peace, friendship, comfort, contentment and beauty. What more can one want in life? If a cat and a dog can be in […]
Happy Thanksgiving Day Canada!
October 12, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Accept, Featured Posts
Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. As I celebrated and gave thanks with friends last evening, I wondered out loud “Where did the tradition of Canadian Thanksgiving come from”? Most present proferred that it is an adoption of the American custom. Not satisfied with this explanation, I googled “History of Thanksgiving in Canada” and learned […]
Free and laughing at the car wash
October 10, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Observe
Canada is full of new and wonderful experiences! A week after I arrived I did something I had wanted to do for years – I went to the car wash! In Jamaica, the car wash is typically a man with a bucket and rag. The experience of an automated, drive-through car wash is new to […]
What is home?
October 9, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Love
I returned home to Jamaica from Canada 2 weeks ago I had this strange feeling as the plane landed at Norman Manley airport in Kingston, as I drove through the streets of the city, as I went to my sister’s and then my brother’s homes. I had never felt this way coming back to Jamaica. […]
Could ease, grace and joy be our natural way of being?
October 8, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Practice
What if ease, grace and joy were our natural way of being? What if everything we did, or intended to do, simply manifested with ease, grace and joy? What would your life be like? It would be one of freedom, where we greet each moment with kindness, love, rejoicing and gratitude. Why SHOULDN’T your life be […]
How to … move doggies from Jamaica to Canada with ease, grace and joy
October 7, 2009 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Trust
One of my daily affirmations over the past 6 or so months has been: “The dogs move safely and happily to Canada with ease, grace and joy”. Each morning I have repeated this affirmation, sometimes adding a visualisation of their journey and life here, sometimes a prayer of gratitude, sometimes a quiet meditation. My words […]
