Susan notes: definitely one of my favourite tunes...

Susan notes: I love the creative forces within me and around me. But sometimes I find it hard to access those forces or use them to their full potential. These few paragraphs from The Daily Om (Subscribe to The Daily Om here) gave me another way to help get my creative juices flowing.

Sometimes fear blocks creativity. To understand how, take a moment to imagine yourself telling a story. First, imagine telling the story to someone you love and who loves you. 

It’s confirmed: I’m full of gratitude about mostly everything, just about all the time.

And I’m happier than most people too (which, to be honest, came as a bit of a surprise…).

I’m one of those odd ducks who loves taking tests, ticking boxes and filling out surveys and questionnaires (strange, but true). So when my friend Terry Netto sent me a link to the Authentic Happiness Testing Center, I was intrigued.

By Catherine Pastille

They were trying to save her life.

That’s why the attending medical staff had ushered me away from my mother’s bedside, leaving me to stand alone in the middle of the hospital corridor.

I felt as if an invisible umbilical cord was being shredded. It was quite strange. Although I was an adult, I became aware that there was something quite powerful that connected us, and I sensed it being pulled away from the center of my body – I could feel it, in physical way.

The doctors asked what I wished them to do – resuscitate? Use a ventilator? Let her go? I was at the center of what felt like an approaching storm – one I knew I could not avoid.

It was then that I saw her coming toward me with open arms; and when I did, I knew in an instant that this was no ordinary moment…

In the inky darkness after midnight, it’s hard to decide which sounds sweeter: the tap dance of raindrops on maple leaves, or the whispering wind that rustles through them.

Pitter patter or shhhhhhhh?

And then the realisation: what is one without the other?

Who would choose a heart without a soul? Together they are the music of this wet and wonderful night.