Awaken your spirit to adventure; Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk; Soon you will be home in a new rhythm, For your soul senses the world that awaits you. -John O’Donohue
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real-life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging”, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
What do you need to remember today?
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real-life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging”, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
✨Consider what “something greater” means to you. For some people, that means God; for others, it could be a collective consciousness or values like love and trust.
✨ Examine where your spiritual beliefs come from. Did you have an early connection to something bigger than yourself? This can help determine what connections you want to keep or let go of.
✨ What activities connect you to and strengthen your spirituality? Spiritual practices differ from regular activities because they’re often about remembering connections to neighbors, community and the Earth.
I tell my folks who cross my path if you do it 1 time it’s an accident, 2 times its careless, but 3 times is on purpose and then we have a problem to deal with
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real-life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging”, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
I love the Op-Ed section of the paper. I believe we all need to write at least one letter on something we’re passionate about in our lifetime. In saying that, I applaud this reader
My fifth-grade son asked me for help with his homework the other night. His class is reading Lois Lowry’s famous novel, “Number the Stars,” based in Denmark circa WWII. I read this book when I was my son’s age. I couldn’t believe such horrible things had actually happened. Reading his assignment, I was struck by the words at the end of Lowry’s book: “Surely that gift — the gift of a world of human decency — is the one that all countries hunger for still. I hope that this story of Denmark, and its people, will remind us all that such a world is possible.”
Is this what countries hunger for still, “a world of human decency”? Is this what our country hungers for still? I look at what’s happened the past month in our country: thousands of federal workers fired and the freeze of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Lifesaving food and medicine programs, a shining beacon of American hope and generosity, gone.
The ghosts of the past are crying out to us now, in 2025, to speak up for a “world of human decency.” That world is still possible, but only if we stand up for it.
Heather Maher, Gig Harbor
Real Life of an MSW 