Don’t touch that stove!

flame by adementmeat on flickr

Our mother’s told it to us, we have said it to our kids… don’t touch the stove! It is hot, you’ll get burned!” Growing up, it did not take usually but one burn to realize yes indeed the stove is hot, and the pain ensues. We learned quickly. Once, maybe twice, but never again do… [Continue Reading]

What I Know For Sure…

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Welcome to a new Monday blog on IndranisLight.org! This blog will be written for Moms by Moms. As always, we would love to hear what you think. Enjoy!    The fabulous Ms. Oprah writes an article in the back of each O Magazine titled What I Know For Sure. This reminds me of when I was younger and… [Continue Reading]

National Women’s Equality Day.

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I know that this applies to more than suffrage. But I cannot help but wonder how courageous the suffragists were to have stepped out from the shadows of  ” women are not smart enough to vote”. I think that for every overt suffragist there must have been 100 covert suffragists. Yes I did pull that… [Continue Reading]

Graffiti

Graffiti by Boss Tweed on flickr

I have been looking back at my life recently and began to see that my life has been like a big wall. Grounded, and in the early days that wall had the potential to become the wall of an office building to achieving success in business; a wall of a home, a structure of nurturing… [Continue Reading]

Is your mobile phone more important that your child?

phone by jencu on flickr

I was in a store the other day and overheard this: “Sit down and be quiet, you cannot disturb your mother while she shops” said a male voice. Then I saw that mom was about 8 months pregnant and sent her some silent blessings and good energy. It was hot, her belly was heavy and… [Continue Reading]

The Frustration of Wasn’t

glass by baileyraeweaver on flickr

I am not sure whose problem it is or if there are actually two problems in the tale of the Frustration of Wasn’t…. Today while walking in around the neighborhood I was feeling  resentful, thinking of old emotional wounds that have never really  healed properly. I try hard to please others mainly because it also… [Continue Reading]

These united states of CONFUSION – PART 3

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If you missed parts 1 &2, here they are: Part 1 & Part 2  This week we focus on the Ultimate Principle and the YOU Principle. Let’s just collapse it for this blog as your Ultimate You. The YOU you were created to be. The reason you were born. Were you born to watch 5… [Continue Reading]

There is more to gratitude than being thankful.

Kindness by SweetOnVeg on flickr

So much has been written and told of gratitude. Feeling full of gratitude myself, I turned to the dictionary to see what Merriam Webster had to say: gratitude |ˈgratəˌt(y)oōd| noun the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness Ah ha! “readiness to show appreciation for and return kindness”. We… [Continue Reading]

These united states of CONFUSION – PART 2

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If you missed last week’s Unites States of Confusion, here it is…  Let’s take it from there, shall we? The only way to get someplace other than where you are… Is first to KNOW that you want to make the journey. I want to journey from this confusion… It is suffocating here. I can barely… [Continue Reading]

Surrender

surrender by aridavies on flickr

Surrendering does not usually have positive connotations. Recently I had been traveling a lot, meetings, obligations, running here, running there. Just simply overwhelmed. I would lay in bed exhausted not able to even sleep well. I decided to start looking at my obligations, my schedule to see what I could eliminate. I started thinking what… [Continue Reading]