Author: Jill

Rejection

A few people have suggested I write something on couple style love. I find that hilarious as I was married for 24 years and now am not. I don’t think my pondering on the subject should be trusted at this point. So, I picked rejection to contemplate instead. Funny thing about rejection though, is that it really can’t be examined without looking at its counterpart, love. My friend Ron Holtz sent me a quote from his new book, which looks like it will be really good! This partial teaser speaks to value: “One quickly learns that the rainbow arching over...

Fear

I read this quote by Marilyn Ferguson on a website I like, “Fear is a question: what are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure-house of self knowledge if we explore them.” I don’t really understand what she meant by, “the seed of health is in illness,” but I do know that when I’m afraid, I feel sick. I get jittery, or my guts hurt, or my blood pressure rises or I’m just pissed off and annoying to be around. At some stage I...

Elements

Why, oh why, do we talk about the weather? Is it because it is one thing in the human existence that all people experience? Or is it that it is a sure-fire constant in a revolving world? Or is it the wonderous fact that the same general elements remain, but reveal themselves spectacularly new, every day? It used to be a joke that if you were on a date and all that came up was the weather, you needed to try again with someone else. But, I love the illustration of sunrises, clouds, rain, lightning, sunsets, and of course snowflakes,...