When I got the call last week, I was in the middle of writing a post for MandoMama about a song. You see, she’d been haunted by echoes from a recently-ended relationship. Since I don’t live close enough to her to stop by and deliver some white sage, I thought I would introduce [...]

Watch Jody score a goal from last night’s game against the Nashville Predators!
Or, watch this youtube video. Jody scores at 1:19 minutes (which is toward the end of the video).

Amber was sick for months before we finally had to decide to put her to sleep. Her decline was agonizing. The decision was so hard.
Katie was here one moment and gone the next. My mind knows it wasn’t my fault. My heart isn’t so easily persuaded. The thought that [...]

December 16, 1997 – February 22, 2007
Katie was so happy to go for a ride in the car this morning. She didn’t seem too scared to arrive at the veterinarian’s office for her bath and haircut.
They called me at work to tell me she collapsed while she was being dried. They tried to [...]

My horoscope from the other day said:
Understanding the language of symbols helps you see just how rich and alive with possibilities your life is. Just remember that the information may not come in the form that you’re used to, so keep an open mind.
I went to a hockey game and found what I wanted for [...]

On retrieving your projections…
Last quote from Awakening at Midlife by Kathleen Brehony:
Marie Von Franz discusses five stages of projection and their withdrawal in her thought-provoking, though difficult book, Projection and Re-collection in Jungian Psychology.
In the first stage of projection, an individual believes that an unconscious inner experience is, in truth, an outer experience. For [...]

This quote is for J, K and MandoMama… from Awakening at Midlife by Kathleen Brehony:
There is much yet to do. Life’s afternoon is just beginning. The Self is continuing its emergent path toward individuation and actualization. And the journey will be infinitely richer and more authentic if we follow a path with [...]

An hour and a half spent shoveling a driveway that is at a 30 some degree angle *up* to the road. Two inches of ice on top of snow. Chunks so big that I had to put down my shovel, pick them up with both hands and hurl them to the side.
I read [...]

Could this struggle to hold the tension of the opposites be why I sometimes wake up feeling like I am losing my mind?
Or am I really just losing my ego?
From Awakening at Midlife by Kathleen Brehony:
The conflict between the demands of the conscious mind (ego) and the unconscious (shadow) generates a profound [...]

I’m processing a lot of new shadow material. Here are a few quotes from Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert Johnson:
To transfer our energy from opposition to paradox is a very large leap in evolution. To engage in opposition is to be ground to bits by the insolubility of life’s problems and [...]

Looks like there’s going to be some agitating going on at tonight’s Blue Jackets game against the Calgary Flames.
From the Columbus Dispatch:
Center Zenon Konopka is on the Calgary Flames’ hit list after the way he played Friday in Calgary. Konopka laid out several Flames, but it was his hit on right winger Jarome Iginla — [...]

Robert Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow:
I am often asked if it is possible to refuse a shadow projection from another person. But this works only if one has one’s own shadow reasonably well in hand. Usually when you receive a shadow projection, your own shadow erupts and warfare is inevitable. When your [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time reading about how to deal with my own shadow. Perhaps it is time to examine the shadow from another angle — dealing with other people’s shadows.
It’s one thing to for me to try to understand, appreciate and integrate my own shadow. It’s an entirely different matter to [...]

February 2, 2007. Imbolc and The Quickening Moon. And my moon time. Walking in a circle, casting thoughts, desires, wishes and more.
Tonight I went to the bar at a local restaurant to have one of my new favorite drinks (the Desperate Housewife = caramel-infused vodka and chocolate liquor) with my best friend [...]

My horoscope for the week of February 1, 2007:
“The disease of niceness cripples more lives than alcoholism,” said writer Raymond Chandler. That’s an exaggeration, in my opinion, but I think his point is important–especially for you Libras right now. As much as I love your ability to cultivate harmony, seek out beauty, and find the [...]