MuseLetter Archive
The Urban Goddess MuseLetter is a free bi-monthly publication
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 Self-Help Snake Oil - Jan/Feb 2012 Living with Verve, Wit and Eyes Wide Open - First of all ... we're all gonna die. A sobering opening statement I realize, however, it is the naked truth. Though we don't know when, where or how, we are certain of its inevitability. Taking the sheer unpredictability of life into account, each and every day becomes a mysterious and precious gift - but how rare ... read more
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 The Value of Loss and Grief - Nov/Dec 2011 Discovering Courage in Uncertain Times - Symptomatic to American culture, we put enormous value on 'winning'. In fact, it is commonplace to measure our lives and endeavors solely by our successes, gains and accomplishments. Yet fundamental to all life events and outcomes, no matter how they are perceived, there are inherent and unseen elements ... read more
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 Mirror Mirror - Sep/Oct 2011 Self Knowing: The Pathless Path - While having coffee recently with a past workshop participant, he mentioned how much he has enjoyed reading the UG MuseLetters. Always a pleasure to hear, of course, so I happily thanked him and as I raised my ... read more
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 Seeking Our Tribal Home - July/August 2011 Authenticity Begets Authenticity - We are all born with the basic need and desire for relationship, but there is also a deeper yearning; the need to "belong". As American psychologist Abraham Maslow identified as one of the Five Basic Needs, we long to be a part of a special group; a pack, clan, a tribe that shares our common values and whose members ... read more |
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 How to Plan an Unknown Future - May/June 2011 The Gifts of Providence, Ingenuity and Blind Faith -
When I first told Jada that I wanted to write about her story, as with all of my coaching clients, I assured her that her identity would be kept private. But before I could even complete the sentence ... read more
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  Good Girl / Bad Girl - Mar/Apr 2011
One of my clients just had a major breakthrough. After fifty years of biting her tongue, she finally told her mother to "Shut Up" ... read more
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 Empty Canvas - Jan/Feb 2011 A Clean Slate or an Unknown Future? It is said that "a picture is worth a thousand words", but what about the stark quiet void of a blank page or an empty canvas? There is great persuasion and potential in empty space ... read more
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 Luck or Determination? - Nov/Dec 2010 Faith, Grace and Giving Up Control After eighteen tumultuous, hellish and maddening months, I finally received a permanent modification of my home mortgage loan. And a 'sweet' loan, at that, in fact, far beyond ... read more
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 Has Anyone Seen My Husband? - Sep/Oct 2010 Actually, I'm still single, but now that I have your attention... Today is my 58th birthday. Not that this is particularly newsworthy, mind you, nor am I vying for well wishes, but birthdays are, indeed, a rite of passage; the one day out of every year that marks our arrival into this complex ... read more
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 You Say Tomato, I Say Pomegranate - July/August 2010 To Thine Ownself Be True A common malaise among a number of my coaching clients and workshop participants over the years is what I call 'constrained creative expression'; in essence, an aspect of ourselves that is screaming for liberation ... read more
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 The Law of Distraction - May/June 2010 All this Positive Thinking is Making Us Sick January 1st, on a typical nightly walk with my dog, I was almost struck by a car. Though I managed to escape actual impact, I suffered a concussion and broken arm in the process. In that altered and surreal moment, laying flat on my back ... read more
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 Love & Sex, Plain & Simple - Mar/Apr 2010 It all began when I was six years old passing notes to boys I liked in grade school. The feel of a big fat 1st grade pencil in my hand, the smell of freshly sharpened lead, the way all the stuff in my head and heart just came spilling out onto my Big Chief Writing Tablet .... read more
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When Things Fall Away - Jan/Feb 2010
KALI: Goddess of Life and Death When I first became interested in Tantric mysticism and Hindu mythology years ago, I quickly developed a deep and resounding affinity for the Goddess, Kali ... read more |
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 The Lost Art of Wandering & Wonder - Nov/Dec 2009 As Buckminster Fuller once stated, and I paraphrase: "If human beings were meant to stay in one place, we wouldn't have been given feet". I could not agree more. The feet in the photograph to the left are my own; sturdy, tired and resting in a windowsill of a 12th century Apsara temple in Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
But taking the photo was the easy part; more important ... read more
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Hanging by a Thread - Sep/Oct 2009
On the Cliff Edge of Crisis and Change
Being part risk-take, part renegade and (quite possibly) partly insane, I have found myself on many a cliff'ts edge in my life. Whether these unsettling periods were preceived by others as ... read more |
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 Sugar and Spice and Everything Covert - July/August 2009
I've a vivid memory of my 5th grade English teacher admonishing me for using profanity in the title of my first semester essay, "Who The Hell Cares What I Did On My Summer Vacation?". As Miss Thomas was dutifully lecturing me on the proper etiquette of essay writing, I found myself thoughtfully examining the intricately teased swirl of hair coifed atop her head. I was faintly aware ... read more
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Hiding in Plain View - May/June 2009
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I knew I would have to surface, sooner or later. So, hunkered down with a vente latte at the Knox Street Starbucks, I began to write about my ten-month hiatus. In-between doodling, staring out into space and checking out all the men, I wrestled with how to .... read more
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