In our get-ahead culture, we expect that all our expectations will be fulfilled. Many self-help and new age teachers have given us specific ideas about how to first know what we want, and then what to do to get our desired results. We learn to move towards our desires, or magnetize them to us, and [...]
There are always birds at our bird feeder, but one morning I saw them differently. Not just as birds, but as representatives of another viewpoint. I could say I saw them as if they were aliens, and then perhaps you will feel even more the impact of what I felt, as I saw them differently. [...]
The only constant sound I heard was my feet stumbling a bit on the many small rocks that covered the red dirt trail. Even though homes and the ocean were visible, they were far away, leaving a beautifully soft silence, occasionally broken by a bird trill, or something scurrying in the brush. I was visiting [...]
Asking this question of myself, my immediate and heartfelt answer was, “OMG I hope not.” This line of thinking began one day after a series of events triggered the desire to be somewhere and someone else. They were little things. I am sure you have experienced them. Feeling a bit stiff and sore, catching myself [...]
This morning, I heard the cheerful call of the chickadee, and the “pretty, pretty, pretty” song of the cardinal. It was the sound of spring. Ten minutes later, I heard the sound of hail hitting the roof. It was the sound of winter. It’s warm today; it’s 29 degrees. It’s warm today because last week, [...]
Life is full of simple lessons. I had one the other day. It made me laugh aloud, and say to myself, “Good grief, Beca.” I was secretly glad no one saw what I had done; like a cat that slips on wet pavement and pretends that it never happened. However, here I am telling the [...]
When my children were little, one of my favorite gifts to give them came about as a solution to not having as much money as I wished to buy them presents. However, before I discovered the solution I did something else. I traded my time for money. I spent one pre-Christmas season working an extra [...]
My husband and I have finished our second viewing of the TV series, Battlestar Galactica. Although, in general I rarely read a book, or watch a show, more than once, at Del’s urging, we began again. This time was even better than the first. This time, I watched it knowing that it ends well. This [...]
I remember the first time I saw a marathon. I was living in downtown Los Angeles in the loft district on Traction Avenue. To get to the event I had walked a few blocks east to Little Tokyo. I passed the many little stores and even the grocery store where I often shopped, but on [...]
It was the 1990’s and I had decided to return to being a CFP after spending some years trying other ways to make a living. After much soul searching, I decided it would be good for everyone if I returned to what I knew how to do well, for at least a few more years. [...]
A black cat patrols our neighborhood. He lives in the house behind us, but I believe he only visits it for food, and maybe a brief rest. For the rest of the day, and long into the night, he is on the move. Although I have come to admire some of his qualities, we have [...]
At first, I thought it was rain. Completely lost in the book I was reading, it took a few moments to realize that it probably wouldn’t be raining in an airport. I glanced up and saw a woman looking down the hallway, clapping. I started speculating. Was she clapping for a friend? If so, why [...]
Starting in my early teens, and lasting for the next 25 years or so, I collected words and saved them. I read the newspaper and clipped articles that moved me, ideas that opened my eyes, essays that inspired me, and pasted them all into a big journal type book. I read books, watched movies, went [...]
Some days I don’t know what to do with myself. I drift around the house with no desire to do anything. If it goes on too long I feel as if I have turned into a piece of flotsam drifting on the sea of life without anchor, and without a purpose other than to drift. [...]
Sitting on the stationary bike at the gym, reading Kurt Vonnegut on my iPhone, I was suddenly, and instantly, transported through a time warp back to somewhere in the sixties. I was in our living room, in the house on Irvin Ave., and Dad was walking with his trademark forward lean down the hallway, correcting [...]
BECA LEWIS coaches, teaches, writes blogs and books, plays with art, and is addicted to reading. She lives in Ohio with her husband and has kids and grandkids scattered across the country.
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