Posted by Helena Smole in Vacations and trips
on Feb 15th, 2016
A story for your kids.
Auntie Photosynthesis is a teeny-tiny creature, which lives in each and every green leave and works for us. What is she doing? She grows potatoes below surface. The delicious potatoes, which mummies and daddies fry. And fried potatoes are the best. Almost better than macaroni and cheese. Yes, kids really like pommes frites.
But how come aunties named Photosynthesis live up in the green leaves and grow potatoes deep down in the soil beneath the surface? Oh, that is a long story. It all started, when aunties bought super-powerful machines called Chlorophyll. That was when all the...
Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships
on Feb 1st, 2016
How can it be that the people we love most drive us most crazy at times? Dr. Harville Hendrix claims that our life partner usually has at least one personality trait that has bothered us or still bothers us in one of our parents as well (Getting the Love You Want, 1988). But why are we annoyed by exactly this trait? Phyllis Krystal always taught us in her seminars, that we picked our parents ourselves before incarnation, because we wanted to learn something specific. The lesson goes on with the life partner, as it would appear from the teachings of the both above mentioned authors.
Whatever the...
Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships
on Jan 18th, 2016
Love is an unexpected morning greeting.
It’s birds on the same branch meeting.
Love is a soft melody sung in a pair.
Love is being strict but fair.
Love is a perfumed letter with a passionate message.
Love is seeking to one’s heart a secret passage.
Love is finding a way through a rough patch.
Love is tolerating socks that don’t match.
Love is a patient yearning.
It’s also a desire like a furnace burning.
Love is breaking up and making up.
It’s also self-defense and standing up.
Love is the heart’s higher learning.
Love is making the armistice and not the fight...
Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships
on Jan 4th, 2016
As I have perceived it, the old definition of a strong person would be something like this: A strong personality has someone, who is stubborn, who prefers to give orders to obeying them, somebody, who is not easily brought to tears.
Yet, times change and the New Age, in my opinion, calls for a new definition. One reads about the new human being often enough in all kinds of texts. I will try to sum up, what I have come up with so far. And I will be really glad to hear your comments. A strong person in the New Age would be somebody compassionate and humble enough to forgive.
Here I must stress that...