Letting the Past Go
In the process of further downsizing my original fourteen file drawers of personal papers and forty-one years of writing, I’ve been...
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Earlene Gleisner
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Personal Power
The quality of my days is slowly changing. Rising of a morning so much earlier that I have done in my last 41 years, I see the subtle...
Earlene Gleisner
- May 9
- 1 min
Changing
Our lives are buffeted daily by external circumstances: rise and fall of gasoline prices and stock market, the shift in food prices,...
Earlene Gleisner
- Apr 5
- 1 min
The 'Bestest'
Early in 2021, I hit a low point in living. Fortunately, I knew enough to grab an opportunity for counseling and connected thru the local...
Earlene Gleisner
- Mar 8
- 2 min
And Now We Stand
How are you coping with so many difficult challenges in the global world and your own families? How can anyone deal with all the unknowns...
Earlene Gleisner
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Creating Love / Passing It On
The dogs in my apartment complex are mostly little happy lappy ones. A few bark … a lot. Most don’t. They have to be walked, fed, bathed,...
Earlene Gleisner
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Communication Can Build Community
When I first learned about quilting, I was in a church basement in Portland, OR. An older Lakota woman showed me the fingering technique...
Earlene Gleisner
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min
Past and Future
The ending of this year and the beginning of the next feel like a bridge between two whirlwinds of chaos. I’m leaving a space in time...
Earlene Gleisner
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Imagining Tomorrow
Under the influence of a weekly group with Masami and Chris Covey (www.masamicovey.com), I’ve attained a few personal and profound...
Earlene Gleisner
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
Looking Up
Last evening, I walked around my apartment complex, my usual after dinner circuit. Fire engines clanged to a new destination. Traffic...
Earlene Gleisner
- Aug 12, 2021
- 2 min
Finding an Ending
Years ago, when in the middle of a divorce and balancing full-time work with raising two children under the age of four, I was given a...
Earlene Gleisner
- Jul 8, 2021
- 2 min
Adjusting to What Is
Living in a one-hundred-unit retirement apartment complex since April 2020 is not exactly where I hoped I would settle. I had hoped to be...
Earlene Gleisner
- Jun 12, 2021
- 3 min
Listening is an Art Form
I thought I understood what the act of listening meant. I am learning that it’s not a simple matter of keeping my ears aware of sounds....
Earlene Gleisner
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
One Foot in Front of the Other
I have been unsettled by the fact that life is still bouncing between one concern or another, that is until I decided to grab on. I went...
Earlene Gleisner
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
Down and Up a Rabbit Hole
At any age of our lives, there are times when we can get stuck in the circle of regret. Pictures on Facebook or movies or statements of...
Earlene Gleisner
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
Let's Bust the Container
The word bulb is a strange word. Rolling its sound around, I feel my tongue expand in the back of my mouth while it also wants to tuck...
Earlene Gleisner
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
Letting Go of the Script
Change is never easy. And yet, many of us had to change our lives, adjust our attitudes, and push away from this strange year of 2020. My...
Earlene Gleisner
- Dec 12, 2020
- 1 min
Holiday Wishes
Several years ago, an illness dropped me toward depression. I stood at a window observing a grey day, full of huge raindrops splattering...
Earlene Gleisner
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
Self-compassion
In the 75 years that I have been alive, I have faced down a lot of challenges while making my way through personal and global turmoil and...
Earlene Gleisner
- Oct 8, 2020
- 2 min
Resilience for Now and the Future
An orange flavored sky cast its light through the venetian blinds and across my duvet. Stripes of color to decorate an understated...