Balance

Balance by oysteronahalfshellJune 23, 2008October 15, 2009

Too Much Clutter

My friend emailed me about her recent trip to Iran. She said she chanced upon a young lady there, who was all covered up in a chador (a black mantle.) The young lady explained that there is Energy in all of us. By keeping herself shielded, she retains the purity of that Energy, so it […]

Balance by oysteronahalfshellJune 12, 2008October 15, 2009

Who are you wearing?

What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass I used […]

Balance by oysteronahalfshellMay 12, 2008September 9, 2009

Doing Less Having More

I remember my first Mother’s Day as if it was just yesterday. It was not a celebration of motherhood but a momentous task of making sure that hundreds of flower boxes were sent on time to eager mothers everywhere in the Philippines. It dawned on me that day: Mother’s Day would always be a WORK […]

Balance by oysteronahalfshellMay 4, 2008September 9, 2009

Simplify

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” -Henry David Thoreau I just came from Camiguin, to visit my husband’s 97-year-old grandmother. If there is one thing to learn about this trip, it’s that simple living, in […]

Balance by oysteronahalfshellApril 12, 2008October 22, 2009

Homeopathic Remedies

I’ve been fortunate to have found a doctor who practices homeopathy and natural medicine. My children are yet to take antibiotics, and their bodies have almost always naturally healed without conventional medicine. Oatmeal for rashes on my three month old baby, water for the cough of my two year old (“that’s the first thing we […]