I’m not just a fan of New Year’s resolutions, I’m a cheerleader for them, and for positive change in our lives in general. As a former counselor who’s worked with a full spectrum of folks — from underachieving college students and the worried well to late-stage alcoholics and drug addicts – I have a realistic [...]
Entries from December 29th, 2009
How To Follow Through On New Year’s Resolutions
December 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity
Tags: addictions·decluttering·exercise·habits·New Years resolutions
Unclothing This Horse
December 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · lifestyle
The jury is in. I’ve decided to delve farther into my satisfaction, actually my enchantment, with the clothes I’ve already got, and not shop for or buy any garments for at least six months. Ta-da! I can picture my male readers, maybe especially the ones without a female in the home, scratching their heads and [...]
Born For This
December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · global warming and climate change, spirituality & religion
Approaching midnight at my church’s candlelight Christmas Eve service last night, after we had worked our way through the birth-of-Christ story with scripture readings and a goodly assortment of carols, we sang a final song that contained this lyric: Now ye hear of endless bliss / Jesus Christ was born for this! Those words thrummed [...]
Tags: Christmas·gifts cards·Jesus Christ·life purpose·President Obama·Starbucks
Alison Cassandra Barcelona
December 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · energy, global warming and climate change
My blogging pal Lou Grinzo from The Cost Of Energy emailed me as he was leaving for his family’s Christmas gathering. He wished me happy holidays and voiced some really nice appreciation for Diamond-Cut Life’s “conspicuously human take” on climate change issues. Lou’s phrase that particularly leapt out at me, though, was in reference to [...]
Tags: Cassandra·coal·collapse·economy·Jared Diamond·Lou Grinzo·mythology·oil·sacrifice
Winter Solstice And The Unconquered Sun And Son
December 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · home & garden, lifestyle, nature, spirituality & religion
The first part of this piece I posted last year, on the 2008 winter solstice. The rest of it I added for 2009. Today is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. In the days long before fossil fuels routinely lit our nights, winter solstice was celebrated as the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun. [...]
Tags: Christianity·Christmas·divine feminine·Goddess·Jared Diamond·Our Father·solstice·winter solstice
