by Jule Kucera | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog
A positive outcome of living for several weeks with people in their eighties and nineties is an appreciation for good health. As I watched the elderly move around the building, riding scooters, pushing walkers, and the lucky ones leaning on a cane, I realized there...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 30, 2019 | Blog
They’re called “likes” but the icon looks like a heart so I call them “hearts.” Recently I wrapped up an online workshop that had a discussion board. It was possible to like/heart other people’s posts but I didn’t do it often. At the end of the workshop I realized my...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 23, 2019 | Blog
The other night I was lying in bed, listening to an audio course before falling asleep. It was Tara Brach’s Free Yourself From Blame & Resentment on InsightTimer. I went through it for the first time last fall and have listened to the ten episodes three or four...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog
I was gone for four weeks, tending to Mom, then came home for a week before going back. Mom said it wasn’t worth making the trip and I might as well just stay but I disagreed. It was good to go home. It was good to have a break because when I went back to her place, I...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 9, 2019 | Blog
Last week’s post was about not seeing. This week’s is about the flipside: seeing but not changing. It’s easy to do. Or rather, not do. I had been married for seven days. After the loneliest week of my life, I knew I had made mistake. But it would have been horribly...