Author Archive for Pat Williams
Raised with hopes, dreams and a desire to make my mark on the world, I set out with excitement and the desire to contribute to the "Greater Good." I took a side trip to raise children and support my husband's career only to realize that "I" got lost along the way. I believe we could have traveled together if we'd both understood the importance of equality and the necessity of evolving roles in the family. My dream is that in the future, all couples will understand the importance of supporting each other fully in word AND deed so each can live in a respectful relationship filled with truth and love. Find me on twitter, CyberCletch, Real Home Sense, Real Estate Tourist and Canadiana Connection.
Purgatory
When any of us live or work in an environment that embraces values that are in conflict with our personal values, our souls will begin a process of interior disturbance in order to remove us from that which threatens our spiritual health. Despite monetary security or reward, if we stay on a path that disconnects [...]
Forehead Tittaes
Forehead Tittaes w/ Marion Cotillard from Marion Cotillard Oscar winner Marion Cotillard introduces a new product to help women be taken more seriously in the workplace by wearing breasts on their foreheads. Humor is always buried in reality and this is a prime example. My first experience with a dropped, intense gaze was from a [...]
Merry? Christmas!
I was laying in bed after my first Christmas Eve alone and for some unusual reason I began to think about the gifts I wouldn’t likely be getting in the morning. I’m sure my kids will give me something, but as teens, my gift is probably not on their priority list. I know my mother’s [...]
Use Those New Toes to Give Yourself a Kick in the Ass
Yes, those shoes are sexy, but if they hurt, don’t wear them. There’s nothing sexy about hobbling around in high heels because they were designed for women who only have four toes. There’s nothing sexy about not being able to take that stroll after dinner because looking good in stilettos is more important than quality [...]
Evaluating Traditions
The other day my 15 year old son asked if I had purchased his advent calendar yet. “You know, the ones with the little chocolates,” he reminded me. I hadn’t planned to get any this year as I wrongly assumed he’d outgrown it. In that moment, I realized he hadn’t. It was a tradition that [...]
Flying Free
There is such beauty in watching the early morning sun sweep silently across the top of the light full white clouds. Golden colors of yellow and pink creep towards the small airplane I’m sitting in. The scene is appreciated all the more because this is a view I’ve rarely seen. I’m serene and realize the [...]
Busyness as a Badge of Honor aka Who Made You Sheriff?
There are some fantastic lines in this article by Christine Arylo who says her primary objective is to get women and girls to fall madly in love with themselves. In the article she says, “Forget Generation X or Y, how about calling us Generation E, for Exhausted!” So true. I was born on the tail [...]
Leaders, Followers and Those In Between
I’ve been thinking about natural order lately. Partially because of my past, partially because of my future but also because of my present. Have you noticed, everything appears to have the ability to be split into thirds? Birth, life, death. Roots, trunk, leaves. Even the best photographs are ones in which the composition is split [...]
Women’s Right to Vote
Today was my first time voting as a US citizen. I left Canada in 1999 and haven’t voted since, which started me thinking about the women who worked hard to give me that right in the first place. I found the following video on the history of women’s right to vote in the U.S.A. I [...]
Woman Ahead of Her Time
Rick Mercer of the Mercer Report interviews Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion who is Canada’s longest running consecutive term mayor. Listen to the interview to marvel at her gumption, experience and brilliance. Read more about this dynamo they refer to as Hurricane Hazel on wikipedia. Thanks to Kim Kassner for bringing this video to my attention [...]