By Nancy Paris

What I know for sure is...we experience giving thanks under two circumstances:

1) For something, or someone, at a particular moment in time.

2) As a ‘way of life’ or ‘state of being’ every day.

Like most,I practice giving thanks at a particular moment in time. But, I’ve found it difficult to practice gratitude as a ‘state of being’everyday-- especially under the worst of circumstances. Includingdeath, divorce, relocations, financial setbacks, and life-threatening illnesses.

By James Recore

May this coming year be a year of peace, profound and deep compassion, a love of self, a love of others, and a love of life.

Let us be grateful for each breath.

Breathe in the consciousness of Oneness, letting go of the consciousness of separation. Let us breathe in unity, and breathe out separation.

Let us be steadfast in our right to be here.

Let us be humble in the knowingness of why we are here.

Let us be compassionate in all that we are and all that we do.

Let us laugh, laugh, laugh at the absurdity of what is being presented as real.

"Let us bear witness to what community can be, Be worthy of being wise and wild and free women, So that others can see, remember, and join us."

Called Back to Remembering Who We Are

By Carol McClintic

“Recently, I observed a three-year-old boy and his five-year-old sister freely dancing with abandon to a song that had come over the radio. What struck me was the innocence of it and of them. They were dancing just because they could and just because suddenly they had felt like it. It made me reflect on my own innocence. What had become of it? When was the last time I spontaneously did something carefree and joyous merely because I felt like it?”