Author Archives: webmaven

Reduce stress in this beautiful, safe, virtual environment

Guaranteed to reduce your stress. Easy to download and guaranteed free of malicious software, viruses, malware, and bad karma. Filled with GOOD karma. In this day and age of frustration and hopelessness, you can actually do something to help yourself … Continue reading

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Being Dead Is No Excuse – Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral

Required reading for your end of life celebration! There are too few words and phrases to adequately describe this unique devil-take-the-hindmost approach to cooking and end-of-life ceremonies. Tongue in cheek? Maybe. Laugh-out-loud narrative? Definitely. Plus, an extraordinary combination of ingredients … Continue reading

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The Energize Orb

  What are the ORBS and why might you be interested in them at all? Well, to get a little more energy, for one! Or, to dedicate an effort to send more energy to someone you care for. That’s right, just … Continue reading

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Bringing Mindfulness to your Care Giving

An excellent post, put up on WordPress and discovered on Facebook through a good friend, J Stern, who often recommends top quality, very practical and insightful listings. Ah, the mysteries and wonders of the modern world… The website itself looks … Continue reading

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Helping a Friend who is Dying – Dr. Alan Wolfelt

I saw Dr.  Wolfelt speak many years ago and was impressed by his knowledge of bereavement and his “companioning” approach to death and dying: Companioning the bereaved is not about assessing, analyzing, fixing or resolving another’s grief. Instead, it is … Continue reading

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The Dawn of the Great Eastern Sun

“The way of the Great Eastern Sun is based on seeing that there is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in the world – which is the innate wakefulness of human beings.” Trungpa p.55 I picked a book off … Continue reading

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