Miracles are abounding, for which I am so very grateful!

Buses show up as soon as I get to the bus stop.
Gorgeous sunsets keep showing up right over my computer in my office.
New friends keep introducing me to people who now want to support my work.
I have had three wonderful visits with my sons and a fine visit with my ex-step son.
I shall be forever grateful to The Universe for my decision to move from Los Angeles to New York.
I am recruiting people to help me create my 2011 business plan.
I have discovered that people really do want to listen to what I have to say.
I have been led to the finest healers in my new home.
My intuitive powers are on and working extremely well for me.
Happiness is being written all over me.

Where does the time go between holidays?

It seems like last week was Haloween, which I love as it was my most favorite holiday, when I was a kid. I could run in the streets around my home in Detroit and no one could follow me in the dark. I remember the feelings of freedom I had. I didn't even like the candy that much.

Then it was Thanksgiving. That was a great holiday for me also, as family gathered together on that day. I was an only child, so I really enjoyed having my cousins, aunts and uncles and grandmother around. I still love homemade cranberry sauce with everything.

And now it's almost Christmas, which has literally lit up New York. The city is full of all colors of twinkling lights and wonderfully decorated store windows, lots of visitors and sale signs everywhere. I like the lights best of all.

The way I celebrate Christmas is very different these days, as I don't send out many cards or buy many gifts. I will send out an e-mail message, and I am gifting people with some of the things I've collected through the years and either don't use or want anymore. Choosing to let go of some of my things really feels good, as I know I am giving them a new life.

I think I shall do some quiet spiritual celebrating around the New Year... I have high intentions on that. I shall share that closer to 2011 --- who can believe date?

Time to talk about attention again!

I haven't written for a very long time.
I can't remember when, exactly. I just know that attention is alive and well all around the world. I was recently in Madrid at the request of a lovely young architect, whom I met in Los Angeles and who lives there. Andres asked me, when he heard that I was going on a cruise from Venice to Barcelona, to come to his city for two days, so he could show me around. I went.

We walked his city, choosing to see his favorite buildings and spaces. He taught me the rituals of enjoying  Spanish cuisine. He introduced me to the friends he thought I' like to meet - I did. He took me to street gatherings for Fashion Week. People in Madrid take advantage of their city by walking it almost 24/7.  He gave me his apartment to stay in, while he went elsewhere to sleep. We rode the buses and the subways. His hosting was the absolute finest kind of attention I could ever have. He was present with me all the while, even though occasionally he had to answer his cell phone. While he had clients to call and work with, I went to two museums, which are totally fantastic there.

Andres' city, Madrid,  is a true gem. It needs visitors and we need it for its art, culture and way of life.

The ship I chose, also had its special brand of attention. There were staff from all around the world, almost like a small United Nations. They were all working together, attentively. They soon knew our names and if we had any special needs for anything. I met young people from Romania, Peru, The Philippines, Lithuania, Bali, Canada - all of whom were seeing the world for themselves.

My memories of those fourteen days away remain vividly etched in my memory bank to be pulled out at will and enjoyed again.

Marching Along

Finally, I am writing again, which feels so good.

I have reinvented my life!!! I moved to New York to my dream home in November.

Miracles keep abounding. The grandson of the Lanes, the Missionary couple who treated me so generously, while I lived in Sapporo, Japan as a young bride/expectant mother, found me through the Huffington Post article I wrote on Thanksgiving 2007...I'd been asking The Universe forever how I could find any family members, as I hadn't been in touch for decades...can you imagine the feelings I had when I saw the Lanes' name in my In-Box? We've become e-mail pals and I can hardly wait to meet him.

I am launching my new book, Attention: Secrets for Making It in College and Beyond, in August. It's 56 pages of vital info for kids about why and how attention works...parents tell me what they wish they'd had it, before they went off to college.


This is a dashing blog today...more to follow.