Just a “few” pictures from Raoul Tawel ‘s and my trip to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Tetons National Park. If you have been to them…

* I Wanted to Write About Jesus, But… By Jane Tawel August 7, 2023 * I wanted to write about Jesus, but…. I wanted to write something about Jesus, but then I kept asking myself, “Which Jesus would that be?” I still think a lot about this person, known to…

And Let Me Catch Them Up By Jane Tawel July 21, 2023 * And when I go, Yes, when I rise, Oh, if I rise when leaving here, then let my arms be strong and long. And let me catch them up. * For all those folks, for those I…

Instead of Thinking, Create a New Heart Non-thoughts by Jane Tawel * Instead of Thinking, Create a New Heart By Jane Tawel June 25, 2023 * I am an overthinker. Perhaps you can relate. Every moment of every day I find myself in a battle of wits, (or is it witlessness?). The battle is “to think or…

by Jane Tawel * Create a Space By Jane Tawel Juneteenth (June 19, 2023) * Take today, just this moment, in fact, is all you need. Take this moment to create a new and empty space inside of you. Do not fill it with all the crowding thoughts. Leave a…

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* Living in Historical Times By Jane Tawel June 10, 2023 * So, today my country makes history, yet again. This time, the history making event, is one of huge proportions, of criminality, of power abused, and the abuse of power revealed and charged. Today, the purpose of the American…

Perhaps I am alone in this, but reading living authors like Yann Martel, Fredrick Backman, Alexander McCall Smith; seeing plays by living authors like David Mamet, Tony Kushner, ; watching things that need good writers, like “The Good Place”, “White Lotus”, “Schitt’s Creek”; or movies that reveal something so deeply…

* If-Only’s, What-if’s, and Now By Jane Tawel May 24, 2023 * The “If-only’s” stuck inside create a life-time of regret. We become unaware that we have created our own unhealthiness — Re-gretting. Re-griefing. Re-gurgitating. And we bring it all back up, again, and again, like bile, like vomit, like…