Posts tagged 9/11
Right Timing
Right Timing

We’ve all heard the sentiments: timing is everything; right place, right time; if it’s meant to be...

There are times when you want something to happen so badly – and it doesn’t. Times when you’re poised to make a move, but in your gut, you know it’s not time. And then there are times when the very thing you’ve been dreaming of happens without effort, as if it fell out of the sky.

Why do certain things happen at certain times? It’s been my experience that whenever I try something new, there’s a shift that needs to occur in my inner world to be able to prepare for right timing.

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Midlife, Professional Women, Well-being, Wellness, WomenKathy Robinsonwellness, wellbeing, women's wellness, mindfulness, gratitude, presence, journaling, story, 9/11, September 11th anniversary
Story as Remembrance
Story as Remembrance

I have always been fascinated by story. As I get older and my elders pass on, I seem to have become a family repository of sorts: sepia tone photographs, 8mm movie reels, letters home written by a 21-year-old uncle I never met who was killed in World War II, my grandmother’s handwritten recipes, my fathers state champion gymnastics medals from the 1930s.

Each of these artifacts tell a story. And our family history is enriched by the ability to hold an object and help us remember who we are and where we came from.

The power of storytelling took on added significance this past week as I watched a documentary entitled Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11.

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Midlife, Professional Women, Well-being, Wellness, WomenKathy Robinsonwellness, wellbeing, women's wellness, mindfulness, gratitude, presence, journaling, story, 9/11, September 11th anniversary