Author Archives: ashley

i’m slowly creeping back into the rhythm of blogging… bear with me, please!

a sharing at the oslist from alan stewart On patience with one’s gradual growth … respecting the rhythm of the spirit I remembered one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the bark of a tree,just as the butterfly was making a hole in its case and preparing to comeout. I waited a while but […]

i got to reconnect with my friend nick palermo at the pie throwing party the other night… please read this truly inspirational dream of his. one theme in his dream sums up my aims at easily amazed pretty succintly, “just examining the sometimes ugly, sometimes beautiful world, looking for truth and lessons.” my dreams last […]

on the oslist, karen gorrin writes about the rewards that come from acknowledging and honoring intense emotions that we feel: I find that the “gasp-lack of oxygen” feeling can be a fear response that arises when powerful, unfamiliar, or uncomfortable emotions catch people by surprise. Often, just the act of naming the emotion, and normalizing […]

one friend and mentor close to my heart taught me about angel kisses. for me, an angel kiss usually lands ever-so-gently upon my forehead, just between my eye brows. it’s a tingly feeling of peace, ease, love, joy, bliss and it sprinkles throughout my being. i feel the spirit of the kiss glide through my […]