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Summoning What Really Matters

January 13, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Okay, let’s take a moment and use all our powers of imagination. Let’s pretend for the next 10 minutes. Let’s crank up our happiness quotient as if we are children making things up just to try things on and see how they feel… just for the fun of it. Are you there with me? Is […]

It is Graduation Time Again…

May 7, 2015 · Leave a Comment

If I were 22 again I would tell myself, “Life has so many graduations for you. Enjoy this one from University and know there will be many more ahead!” I would want to take the pressure, which I personally placed on my own shoulders, off – so I could enjoy all the moment had to […]

“When I Grew Out of…”

April 6, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“When you feel peaceful joy, that is when you are near truth” ~rumi I smiled when a friend used this phrase in an email recently,“When I grew out of…” It reminded me that, even after the age of 50, we do grow out of things. It let me know that whatever I am going through right […]

Life is Butter: The Meaning of Power

March 1, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“Butter”, 8 x10 Watercolor “Power” is a powerful word. I know I am not supposed to use a word to define that same word. So what other words are conjured up when you think about POWER? My head and heart used to turn toward FEAR when I considered the idea of POWER. “Run away! Run […]

Pandora

February 17, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Hey Pandora…Why not look inside? “Endowed by the gods with every attribute of beauty and goodness, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Happy the man given her as wife! Her dowry from the gods included a box, which she was warned never to open. No one but the gods knew what was hidden inside. […]

How Do I Achieve Inner Peace?

February 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment

When I read these words to myself, sometimes on a daily basis, I become stronger in my belief that Change and Peace are on the same continuum and they always start (and end) inside of me. “My whole being works best when I am able to achieve EQUANIMITY in life. I thrive when things are NOT tipped […]

Clarity: A Master Class

February 12, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.” ~t.f. hodge Clarity really messes up everything I […]

How To Unfold

February 11, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~rumi How do I unfold? Until I am able to live in the dream for my highest self, I am borrowing my Soul’s heart to assist me in making decisions. To do this I am meditating more regularly, which helps me to […]

Trust

January 6, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”~hunter s. thompson ‘Soft Verges’ is a sign I saw posted whilst driving in the English countryside last year. Verges are the edges of the road. They are also, “She […]

Don’t Postpone Joy

December 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Today I am here… “Picture in your inner eye, your inner sight, four avocado seeds on the window sill. Three are suspended in a glass of water and have sprouted. One is still dry and papery and brown. Each of the sprouting seeds has its own character. One has two long roots, like two rubbery […]

Love Beyond Measure

November 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most ” – hafiz How much Love can you take?  Let’s talk volume here. Is it enough? Is it too much? Can you take just a little more? And just a little more again? Why is there a set amount that is allowed? […]

Viva Les Questions!

November 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“It can’t just be about others because it’s too depleting. It can’t just be about ourselves because it’s too lonely.” ~Jason Garner Everywhere everyday opportunities arise to help ourselves and to help others but where is the balance? How can we next make the right decision to help ourselves or to help others? What kind […]

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Lani received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and earned a B.A in Art Education from NCCU in 2000.
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