http://www.powerofritualsblog.com powerofritualsblog.com Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:55:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanksgiving is all about food, football, family and, let's not forget, thanks.  We have all participated in the ritual at Thanksgiving dinner of sharing what we are thankful for.  My family will forever be on the top of my personal thankful list. My Mother's holiday dinners are legendary in my family.  ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/11/12/thanksgiving-is-a-time-to-thank-the-ones-you-love/ I turned sixty this year, just about six months ago.  I gave myself quite a celebration when I turned fifty but I just kind of slipped through the sixty keyhole without too much notice or fanfare.  About three months after this main event, I was standing in line at Sweet ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/11/01/sixty-is-the-new-forty-five-for-women/ Add a new and different ritual to Halloween by celebrating the power of women.  Who is your favorite heroine rom any era? The Standard College Dictionary defines a heroine as one who performs brave deeds, showing great daring or boldness.  Women have more power than ever in this era.  I am estactic ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/10/24/celebrate-the-power-of-women-on-halloween/  It's summer and all across America hundreds of thousands of people are making plans for their summer vacation with a destination of a family reunion.  Yessir, families from all walks of life are packing up babies, grabbing old ladies and heading out to the family reunion where they will re-connect to their ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/06/02/family-reunions-are-fertile-soil-for-rituals/ Mother's are truly the glue that binds families and communities.  The most difficult job ever to be undertaken is that of mothering.  On this Mother's Day, I am going to take on the mothers that have broken bridges to their children.  More and more I hear stories of adult children ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/04/26/mothers-milks-is-sometimes-sour/ Baby boomers are considered the "sandwich" generation being sandwiched between our parents and our children. While we are caring for both, we are also becoming who we finally want to be. It just took us many years to get to there, accumulate life experiences and wisdom, have our ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/04/16/ill-have-mayo-with-that-baby-boomer-sandwich/ sleeping through it soundly?  It's spring - a time of renewal, reinvention, growth, blossoming.  What is your answer to this question?  What does "living your life fully" mean to you?  Of course, my meaning is about relationships.  Today a group of Colorado recycling  women gathered for a spring ritual at Anne Peter's ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/04/12/are-you-living-your-life-fully-or/ What woman hasn't rewarded herself, cured a bad mood, celebrated a triumph or replaced chocolate by buying a pair of new shoes?  Carrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends on Sex and the City demonstrated on a regular basis, how focusing on their shoes made them feel better.  Celebrations around shoes are ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/03/23/its-spring-and-a-girls-fancy-turns-to-shoes/ The Christian meaning of Easter of course is the resurrection of Jesus Christ symbolizing eternal life for all who believe in him.  I was raised Catholic (not practicing for many years now) and although that was certainly what we were taught and why we went to church on Easter Sunday I ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/03/19/how-do-you-celebrate-easter/ This video shows the extraordinary response of an African lion who reunites with the woman who rescued him, saved him and then when he got to big, found a home for him.  It is an extraordinary display between these two who very evidently had a heart connection. How would it be for ... http://www.powerofritualsblog.com/2008/03/15/another-take-on-a-relationship-a-lion-reunites-with-the-woman-who-saved-him/