Category Archives: Live and Learn

LYL Challenge: Elevator Pitch from a Stairs Kinda Gal

Posted on April 17, 2016 by the.way.i.bee

Today’s prompt: What’s my elevator pitch? (Read: What am I excited about? What am I building?) I’m a person who loves finding the middle. The heart. Of everything. I love finding it, connecting to it, understanding it and moving from … Continue reading →

Posted in expanding, Humor, Live and Learn, Live Your Legend, Quaker, Uncategorized, Vibes, Yoga | Tagged dream job, finding your center, life, Live Your Legend, love, quaker, seeker, soul searching, Start-A-Blog Challenge, writing, yoga | Leave a comment

The Downside of the Upside: Airing out the wound

Posted on March 4, 2016 by the.way.i.bee

I’ve been trying to take better care of my bee-loggy here and I stumbled on this piece I wrote after jumping ship from an old job with absolutely nothing in place. It has sat in my “Drafts” since. I never … Continue reading →

Posted in expanding, Live and Learn, Uncategorized | Tagged changing careers, dead end job, feeling undervalued, glass ceilings, jumping ship, staying positive, transitional fear | Leave a comment

Ommm Resilience: The Way of the Willow

Posted on November 8, 2015 by the.way.i.bee

Monthly theme blog written for the awesome folks at Nourishing Storm. This month’s theme was written last month where the anniversary of a great loss influenced my thoughts on resilience. This post is dedicated to the memory of Gavin Wolfe and with love to everyone still bending in the wake. Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn, Nourishing Storm | Tagged believing in your strength, bending, finding your center, moving through life's storms, nourishing storm, resilience, yoga | Leave a comment

Peace, Love and Dirty Dishes

Posted on June 19, 2015 by the.way.i.bee

Dhish Dharma for us family circus freaks. Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn | Tagged dharma, dhish dharma, doing dishes, faith and practice, household chores, mindful living, mindfulness, philadelphia yearly meeting, quaker, quakerism, spiritual formation | 3 Comments

Faith, Signs and Daffy Duck

Posted on May 5, 2015 by the.way.i.bee

So I’ve never been one for following signs. I’m more of a landmark kinda gal. I’ve missed a few turns along the road waiting to see something familiar. Times where I did follow the road signs and despite knowing for … Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn | Tagged authentic life, brent bill, chasing dreams, daffy duck, finding myself, jump and your life will appear, Let your life speak, quitting your job, sacred compass, signs, yourcalling | Leave a comment

Remembering 9/11. And wishing.

Posted on November 6, 2014 by the.way.i.bee

I wrote this about a week or so after 9/11 but never posted. I thought it may not be relevant but I just read the towers have just reopened for business. So maybe? September 11th just passed. I don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn | Tagged 9/11, automatic writing, be good family, compassion, September 11th, wake of tragedies | Leave a comment

In Memory of Gavin Wolfe: Learning the Strength in Bending from the Man of Steel

Posted on October 8, 2014 by the.way.i.bee

Sometimes life really tosses us around. We are thrown up into the air. Spinning with no ground to stand on, everything around is suddenly unfamiliar, nothing makes sense. Caught in a whirlwind, we can’t grasp anything we see. Everything is moving too … Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn | Tagged gavin wolfe, grieving, helping friends cope with great loss, love will never die, making sense of loss, mourning, staying open, superman | 7 Comments

Turning my Inner B into my Inner BFF

Posted on September 24, 2014 by the.way.i.bee

So sometimes I think I may have a split personality or maybe an alter-ego. I don’t know. . . something. I don’t black out and find out I’ve done something terrible or anything. I haven’t formed any fight clubs that … Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn | Tagged anger issues, anger management, inner biznatch, keeping my glung, peace within | 1 Comment

Oh well a touch of grey kinda suits me anyway . . .

Posted on July 15, 2014 by the.way.i.bee

I pull into the parking lot at 6AM as I do a couple mornings a week. I meet my friend to exercise before work. Sometimes we jog, sometimes we walk, sometimes we lunge our way through the park. Okay, mostly … Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn | Tagged age Gracefully, aging, anti-aging, life, living | Leave a comment

How do you eat your Reese’s?

Posted on June 6, 2014 by the.way.i.bee

I often go to the Friends Journal website to take a peek at the upcoming topics. As a member of the Religious Society of Friends and a very irregular attender, I like to use the topics as prompts for meditation … Continue reading →

Posted in Live and Learn, Quaker | Tagged buddhism, christianity, common threads, concept of god, evangelism, my truth, quaker, quakerism, religion | 4 Comments