Serenity in the South Pacific

I have gone sailing most every year for the last 10 or so years. Being on a sailboat is like returning to the womb for me. The quiet, the rock of the water, the smell of the ocean air, all if it providing a comfort that I get no where…

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A Great Adventure

It began as a dream in early 2008, we could buy a boat, circumnavigate the world, be together all the time. We were in those early days of being in love when everything seems possible and reality is long forgotten. We found our Munay in Fiji, went out for an…

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A Woman Wishes…

Someday the woman wishes the dirty dishes made it to the sink, that the sneakers weren’t dropped in the middle of the room, that there were more hours in the day, no correct that I don’t want or need more hours in the day. I wish for more hours doing…

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Thoughts of Bicycling

I sat alone, journal on the table, writing, thinking about bicycling, bicycling in this place of a million bicycles, I too wanted to bicycle, to join in with the crowd not to move furniture like some do but to explore this place, this place full of history and story, this…

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Simple Beauty

It is simple, symmetrical beauty. I can imagine it’s fragrance, sweet and delicate. I can feel it’s soft skin, tender and supple to the touch. I can catch it out of the corner of my eye as I walk through my neighborhood, simple beauty during a slow walk on an…

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The City of Lights

Today, I booked a flight to Paris. This trip is part healing journey, part future reconnaissance mission and part letting my inner gypsy stretch her wings after a year of staying put! It has been two years since I have been to the city of lights. The last time I was in Paris I was a wife, celebrating a 10th wedding anniversary with a husband. This time I go as just, Renee, a woman desiring to reconnect with a place that she loves. I also go as a woman stepping into her future.

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Memories and Self Compassion

Today was a beautiful, warm, sunny day in San Diego. As my Sunday went by with intentionally less things on my to do list, I found myself early this afternoon debating, do I stay in perhaps enjoy a good book on my balcony, watching the sailboats elegantly glide the waters of the bay or do I leash Blue (my Great Date) up and take him down to the car and get out.

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Sisters from afar.

As I write this, it is Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, this afternoon I was moving some items around to organize them in my spare room closet when I decided to look through a box of old photos.

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How fluid is your perception?

If you have been following me for a while now, you know that I have been studying Shamanism for about 15 years now. One of the concepts you learn about in Shamanism is the concept that we each have an Assemblage Point. Our assemblage point is the point on our body where we are connected to all that is in the universe and it is the place where we assemble our perception, our view of the world from.

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