“A relationship without trust is like a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games.”

This is a quote that leaves a little sting after you read it. It took me years to get to a place in my life where I was able to cultivate relationships that were always ' in service.'

Yesterday I wrote about authenticity and the topic continues to remain in the forefront of my mind. A few weeks ago I read a news headline about the actress Gwyneth Paltrow. In it she is ridiculed for her 'strange belief' that water has feelings…

Imagine being lost in the woods on a dark night. You are wandering aimlessly with no inkling whatsoever of which way to go when you begin to notice the ground beneath you changing. And as each step gets a bit easier, it dawns on you that you have found a path. This path does not make the dark woods disappear, nor does it shorten the distance you must travel to get out of the woods —  but it does allow you to move forward with a bit more certainty, knowing that others have traveled this same route before you.

The law of karma is something that we refer to a lot in our house, and our 8 year old son is of the temperament where he spends a lot more time arguing against this eternal boomerang than he does acknowledging its truth. I can remember my own youth and the sense of  ‘untouchableness’ that my karmic naivety briefly allowed me to enjoy. These days I am a firm believer that the Universe eventually coaxes (or sometimes beats) the notion of ‘karmic exemption’ out of most of us.