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Day 29 – interesting times…

You know when you hear those things you know to be VERY true, but holy crap do you ever not want to hear them? Well I’ve had a good number of those coming at me this week.

Firstly, I was talking to a friend yesterday about my latest post, about how people were responding to that and all the things that were stressing me out from it and the rest of my life (as an aside, cheers for friends who will just sit and lovingly let you rant ’til it’s all spent). Somewhere in the midst of my emotional regurgitation she just cocks her head to the side and says to me:

When men want to take care of you, you get really uncomfortable.Read More »Day 29 – interesting times…

Day 28 – thoughts on men

Somebody was telling me about one of Mark Hopkins’ We Should Know Each Other events in his livingroom. He got the conversation started with the question: what scares you? Good one! I’m all for getting people beyond the shallow small talk, and this question is a hum-dinger way to do that.

It also got me thinking, what scares me right now? Read More »Day 28 – thoughts on men

Day 20 – peaceful easy feeling

by Valerie Roney
May 24, 2011
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Today’s post has a soundtrack, so go ahead and click here to get the Eagles going so you can listen in the background as you read…

Ironically, after writing yesterday’s post considering the need to be at peace with what isn’t at peace, I’ve been feeling more peaceful than I have in weeks. Read More »Day 20 – peaceful easy feeling

Day 5 – what’s love got to do with it?

by Valerie Roney
May 9, 2011
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Went into my meditation today all nervous and jittery. With all those feeling of twitterpation and trepidation you get when you’re falling in love.

Love puzzles me… no that’s not quite true, dating – and that whole form of love puzzles me.Read More »Day 5 – what’s love got to do with it?

Enlightenment and Shit

by Valerie Roney
April 3, 2011December 16, 2024
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Coming down from the mountaintop of enlightenment…I slipped in some shit.

It’s one thing to be in a space of equanimity and loving kindness for all humanity when you’re sitting in meditative solitude. It’s quite another to be full of peace and goodwill when you’re tired and late and just trying to get a few things from the grocery store and they’ve been doing renos and you can’t frickin’ find anything and you finally take your carefully chosen eleven items to the express checkout only to get yelled at by the guy behind you because as you are just now realizing this is now the FIVE item express checkout and you suddenly discover suck my rocks is now in your interpersonal repertoire which is funny ‘cause you’re a girl and you don’t have any rocks and you wonder if that phrase has any weight when your girl bits don’t actually have any… well… weight.

Um..yeah…but, I digress.Read More »Enlightenment and Shit