I ran across this earlier in the year and keep meaning to share it with you just because . . . .

Sand Animation by Ksenia Simonowa from Ukraine

Here’s an interesting solution to help you keep your elderly family members safe and close to home.

If you are interested in nurturing your spirituality, check out some of my favorite resources below.

• Conversations with God
  Neale Donald Walsch

• Dance of the Spirit: The Seven Steps of Women’s Spirituality
  Maria Harris

• The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding
  Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, & Priscilla Warner

• Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
  Larry Dossey, M.D.

• Beliefnet

• Explore Faith

• Faithfully Liberal

• Read the Spirit

• Spirituality Practice: Resources for Spiritual Journeys

I hope you’ll let me know what you think about these resources and feel free to add your favorites below!

Last week one of my favorite clients said that she is really struggling with how to design her life now that her kids are leaving home. If that resonates with you, too, then here’s an exercise to help you determine what is really important to you as you start to plan your future.

• Gather a stack of blank index cards.
• On each one, write a different goal – things that you would like to do, be or have before you die.
• Set your resignation aside.
• Don’t worry about how you will accomplish it, embody it, or obtain it.  For now, just write . . . capturing as many ideas as you can.
• Consider and include what goals you may have that extend beyond your lifetime.  Include possible projects that others can assume once you are gone.
• This is an activity that requires brainstorming so nothing is too silly or inappropriate if it is something that you really want.

In other words, allow yourself to dream!