To Think About, Imagine, and Talk About the Soul...

Some days the news is so disturbing, so troubling, so mystifying... 

...makes you want to stuff up your ears, blindfold yourself, put on a droopy hat, wrap a long black garment around your body, cross your heart, cross your fingers, and hum lullabyes to yourself.

One thing (among many) I learned from reading "Anam Cara," John O'Donohue's great book, was how to think about, imagine, and talk about "the Soul." We all have a soul. We all need a Anam Cara, a "Soul Friend" in order to have a fulfilled, meaningful life.

What's really cool... our Soul Friend can be our Soul...

And what is a Soul? A home. A place of deep solitude. A place of grace, beauty & innocence. It is where creativity and hope resides. The soul is bigger than our bodies. It engulfs and envelops us. It's like a bubble around us and it extends out to meet the Universe.

So, from time to time, it's good to sink into your Soul. To detach a bit from the world. To heal yourself with Silence, to heal yourself with the deep untouchable Solitude. It is where you go to be renewed & reborn. A place where you discover that Love, Hope, Peace, Grace, and Beauty reside deep inside you. An inexhaustiable resource. Thank You John O'Donohue for the language & the road map to figuring out how to imagine it.