Carol Wiebe

My posts are telling me I may be overextending myself. Being “plugged in” is a joy, but it can take over your life. Balance is the key. But how do you achieve it? There are wonderful strategies: meditation, reading, having tea with friends, going for walks. I  do them all. Just not often enough. Seeing Yourself What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like

. Last night I had a disturbing dream about water. I don’t have many dreams that affect me that way. I decided to create an image that was decidedly more upbeat, even silly, to balance the disquiet. Fish On a Water Grid See that little one going her own way, against the flow? That would be me. Upstream all the way. #disquiet #CWWOL20111213 #dreams #balance #flow #fish #upstream

Fences. They protect and they hide. They can be quite decorative, or hideously ominous and imposing. Some of us feel fenced in, others think everything is greener on the other side. Some of us sit on them, others tear them down. Fences do keep the grandchildren somewhat contained, which allows their grandparents a running chance of catching them. Fence Will Rogers said: “There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest o

I subscribe to Tammy Vitale’s Wylde Womens’ Wisdom, and today’s quote was particularly apt: Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else!……………………. ~ Julie Cameron Here’s what I wrote back to her: Tammy, this quote rings like a liberty bell. All those years of schooling, which now start for most at age 4 (an