For me, I had been partners with Andy for thirty years when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. I was forty seven years old and extrinsically characterized as nice, unconventional, optimistic, spontaneous, and a little spaced out. Most of this was true. Any diagnosis of […]
I believe that most people DO care about sick people but DO NOT have the ability and cultural support to put that care into practice. It sometimes felt like the rats were jumping off the sinking ship of Andy’s illness. It felt like a reality […]
One’s essential nature is what we are born with and then conditions happen and in absorbing them we make meaning out of them. The meaning we make begins to define us. It is easier to see when a small child becomes sick. In defining ourselves […]
When Andy’s and my business of making and selling welded bronze jewelry took off, we wanted to share our good fortune and had read about the concept of tithing. We discovered that receiving was a way to be generous. When Andy’s and my business of […]
Exploring our mountain forest and sledding was free. I had learned to practice yoga when I was a teenager and I taught my family, which cost no money. 1) Without purchasing power we looked to what was free in the world. 2) We learned to […]
Living on our land and in our housetruck was essentially free because we’d paid for it as we built it, not using credit. It was free but it also wasn’t finished. Getting home, securing minimum wage jobs and having no money was hard. We had […]
We used our credit cards to get home to Taos, New Mexico. When our business was thriving, we’d bought undeveloped land in a mountain forest. Andy had built a house on the back of a flatbed 1960 Ford truck and we’d parked it on the […]
Being loved by Andy showed me that money can be included as part of a generous person’s offerings. There were times that life required me to be sacrificial. I found that to be successful at being sacrificial, cheerfully giving something up for myself in order […]
When we embraced the biggest scope of treatments we set ourselves up for the biggest results. Have you ever had a muscle spasm? I’ve helped a lot of people work out painful muscle spasms by massaging them. It takes just the right touch. Too little […]
1) Know who is on your team and trust them. 2) Love “other people” but only trust them after they’ve earned that privilege. (Love many/trust few) 3) When with “other people” be ready to shut them down and walk away. “Other people” includes everybody who […]
