Some people say to me, “you’ve changed… what happened?” and all I can say is, how f*cking far back do you want me to go?

I just spent an hour taking apart my tub and its little tile wall to make it easier for the plumber to see what he’s dealing with in finding the leak that goes through the wall. This is an oversized fiberglass tub that we set up on cinder blocks inside the master shower in 1988 then fashioned a little wall in front and tiled it. It’s like opening a time capsule! Maybe I’ll stick the tub out in the garden instead of a kiddie pool!   Below, I have it exposed and ready to pull out. What you’re looking at here is an oversized tub set into a shower stall space. then it was tiled around and I have pulled off most of those tiles. Ima pull it out and leave a shower space only. Fingers crossed it’s not too much work.

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Consider this when “it just feels right.” Just because something feels familiar and comfortable doesn’t mean it’s good for you. When people go from one toxic or abusive relationship to another, for instance, it’s because that is what feels normal, it’s what feels familiar. Being able to adjust to an abnormal situation isn’t always healthy. Begin training yourself into more daily joy and see what begins feeling good and comfortable thirty days down the road. You’re welcome.

Goddess Art, celebrating the feminine spirit

I’m seeking art that depicts and celebrates women, “goddess art,” “sisterhood art,” art depicting women and women bonding, women supporting women, women celebrating the feminine spirit. If you know an artist who might have art to submit for consideration, please tag them with this post. The painting or artwork will contain 2 or more women interacting with each other. Include a few lines telling what the scene depicts.  Here are our –> art submission guidelines.  Email Andrea at horizonsmagazine@gmail.com

Sisterhood art – art with two or more women interacting with each other

Just polished my toenails a pale, pearlescent baby pink. I’m not a mani/pedi chick. I’m a gardener. These look pretty but I wonder if my toenails are gasping for air?

I’d thought about buying one of these little pools so I could float at home on hot days but then thought what a waste of water since I’d have to empty it at night. I’d have to keep a tarp across it to keep out falling leaves, misquito larvae and raccoons. Right, raccoons, I hope they don’t climb up it, they climb up everything. Still, I’m missing my Jacuzzi tub and thought this might be a summer substitute.
An hour later: Ok, I bought this little pool, it was $24.97 at Walmart. I had a compressor to blow it up, but didn’t realize I needed an adapter like you’d use to blow up an air mattress. My neighbor had one tho, but 20 minutes later my ancient compressor gave out. I went back to the store to look at compressors since I need a new one for my bicycle tires anyway. I had to laugh. This is how a $24 pool turns into $100 purchase.   Continue reading →

June 2015 cover

Hello and welcome to the June 2015 edition of Horizons Magazine. Happy Summer Solstice, a time when the sun lingers the longest of any other day. It is a time of intensity, renewal and great potential. I typically do a burning bowl ceremony at Summer Solstice, just making some symbolic notes of things I’d like to be free of, which I then burn in my chimenea.  I think of it as a time of renewal.  A time to make things new and get clear what I want for the rest of the year.  Summer Solstice is also Father’s Day. A time to celebrate the men in your life. Tell them how much you appreciate them, maybe light a candle for those who have moved on. “…the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later is that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.”  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities.   Continue reading →

If I do what satisfies my soul – whether I make money at it or not – then my life is filled with joy. When my soul feels satisfied, other streams of joy and income start coming in as if from nowhere. Or I might start making money doing what satisfies my soul. But the feeling satisfied part has to come first. My job is to find out what satisfies my soul. All else will follow.

You have never, not for one moment, been off your path. And you have no reason whatsoever to feel any embarrassment or discomfort about where you are at this stage in your life. You are powerfully on your path. And you are just beginning the best part of your life. ~ Abraham-Hicks

Sometimes I have a hard time realizing when I’m the funnel and when I’m the cup. I used to be concerned my cup was always leaking, then I realized I was a funnel. And a pretty good one. Everything comes, everything goes, and everything comes again 🙂 When I see it that way, I can experience it as a never ending flow of goodness, that I can enjoy as it passes through.