Today this little blog clocked 100,000 hits. Laura would be amazed. I am. Wow! Wow! Wow! Laura and I started this blog together on July 4, 2013 to reach out to family and friends when Laura was sick. Next week it will turn two. It has reached people in over 130 countries. Thank you dear…
Tag: LOVE
The Letter
How often does fate intercede to bring us together or keep us apart? There seems to be divine timing involved in so many things, but most especially love. In the 1880s, my great grandmother Elisabeth Baxter and her beau were separated by the Atlantic for nearly 5 years. He was a young stone mason, who…
Larkin on Love
‘What will survive of us is Love.’ from Philip Larkin’s poem – An Arundel Tomb
Leo Tolstoy
‘To die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the eternal source.’ – Leo Tolstoy
Adventures in the Food Trade
I could swear I met Laura years ago. She always said no. But in the 90s I attended endless fashion, design, film, book, TV, architecture and art cocktail parties for work. Laura was a catering manager who passed hors d’ouevres at exactly these kind of events. So there is a high likelihood we crossed paths. All…
Togetherness
Don and Maxine Simpson met in the1950s, fell in love and remained inseparable for the next 62 years. When they both got sick around the same time (Maxine with cancer and Don after a bad fall), their grand-daughter Melissa knew they couldn’t bear to be parted and put their beds side by side in her…
Move Closer
If you need ideas for next Valentine’s day, you might want to take some tips from the animal world. Dancing, singing, kissing, applying lots of color; it seems animals use many of the same dating tactics as us (if the Beeb’s Animals in Love documentary is right). Take the wood spider, it does a pretty good…
Pennies From Heaven
Yesterday a friend warned that I might be holding Laura’s spirit back; keeping her from important spiritual work by talking to her and enjoying her spiritual presence. It is an opinion I’ve heard before. A year ago I might have agreed. For a while I thought her spirit could only be in one place at…
It’s curtains for you, my friend!
A tale of two friends both recently widowed. Their lives splintered. Nothing now fits together as it did before. But a tale of two extremes. One lost her faith along with her partner. She reasoned: ‘How could there be a loving God who cruelly severs people from their soul mates?’ The other’s grief didn’t slam…
Twin Flame
One of the most beautiful things that came out of my leap up into the spirit realm (doing the life between lives regression) was discovering that Laura and I are ‘twin flames’, two souls created at the same time from the same energy, which may explain our intense connection and our delight in each other’s…
The Golden Ticket
The morning of New Year’s Eve 2010 I woke up super excited. I dreamt the night before I had won the lottery. I almost never played the lottery, so I bought $40 worth of tickets. The tickets were all duds. But New Year’s Eve 2010 was the day I first looked at online dating sites….
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!! I flew into the UK last night. I was supposed to be on a 10 day Vipassana retreat, sitting in silence to feel and release what happened last year when Laura was admitted to hospital on Xmas Eve. On Christmas day 2013, the doctors told us she might only have a…
The Arms of Love
I often wake in the morning now to find myself all wrapped up snuggly with my feet playing what Laura called ‘feetsies’, my arms gently wrapped around me, with hands against my cheeks and suffused with a deep soul warmth and joy. When this happens, I wonder if Laura’s spirit slipped into bed during the…
Madonna Badger
I can’t think of a braver soul than Madonna Badger, who lost all three of her children and both parents in a fire at her home in Connecticut three years ago. Here she is talking to Oprah on last weekend’s Super Soul Sunday (surely Oprah’s best work) about connecting with departed loved ones (like Oprah’s…
Soul Love Forever 