Meri's Musings

Letting go of relationships,  things that are emotionally charged for us, of expectations, of illusions. . . . of thoughts that don't serve us. Letting go with grace involves coming to a place of surrender, leaving the resistance to "what is" behind. Letting go of the "why is this happening to me" questions  to ask  "what's next"  and "how do I want to be  as I move forward." The without regrets piece has to do with living whole-heartedly , showing up in your fullness and saying what you have to say from a place of love and compassion. Each and every day. Hmm. . . this sounds like soul work. Imagine!

It is time. "Clock Window at Musée d'Orsay"© 2003, 2011 Meri Arnett-Kremian Time for thoughtfulness and right action. Time to practice compassion. Time for civility in public and private discourse. Time for loving kindness and connection to prevail, for hatred and violence to find no soil in which to root. It is time for change. It is time for miracles.  Let us begin. 

Last night, my dear friend Gail got married. The bride and groom's adult children, her son and daughter and his daughter, all participated in the ceremony, attended by a few dear friends and family. "Sweet Spot" © 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian At times like that, when people are pledging their lives to each other and picturing shared dreams and growing old together, it makes you think. And so it was really distressing in the conversational time after the cutting of the cake and all the food munching and champagne sipping to hear the story of one of the guests, a nice man whom the groom has worked with for some three decades. Mr. X had a bone marrow biopsy  to confirm or rule out  multiple myeloma only two days before the wedding. His wife decided she'd vacation in Hawaii rather than be there for the test. And when the doctors began to mention treatment protocols to him and he called her to talk about it, she told him he should move to his childhood home to be with hi...

I'm wishing you a world where each and every one of us sees everyone and everything through the eyes of love, through the eyes of compassion, through the eyes of peace.