Daring to Know What You Want
A gorgeous woman in her mid-twenties leaned toward me, the look on her face an invitation to conspiracy.
“What I want,” she said, as though the words themselves were dangerous, “is to know what I want.”
She proceeded to list all the things she did not want, including her secretarial job, being fifteen pounds “too chubby,” and [...]
Discovering A Hole in the Universe
A neighbor’s message on our answering machine informed me that Marge had died. In her sleep. She was eighty-six.
My first reaction was rather dismissive: “Well, she had a long life, and it was time,” I told myself. Not until I passed the news on to my husband did my mixed bag of feelings surface.
“Oh, no!” [...]
How Birds Teach Communication Skills
I grew up knowing birds could talk.
Whenever my mother dug up a lie I thought was safely buried in kryptonite, she’d say, lips smugly pursed, “A little birdie told me.”
Needless to say, my view of birds in those days ran more to the image of ratfink than to feathered friend. Later, though, the ancient wisdom [...]
How to Succeed in Hard Times
An old friend called from the East Coast yesterday to tell me times are hard.
“I can’t get anywhere,” Ken said. “I think they made up that phrase ‘dime a dozen’ just to describe writers in New York.”
Then he told me he had a story stuck in his computer that was a spell check away from [...]
Enlightenment One Aha! At A Time
Welcome to Lucid Moments. My name is Lynne Whiteley Novy and I’m inviting you to come along with me on a mystery journey that could very well enlighten your life–one aha! at a time. Along the way I’ll show you how the power of your own true story is your immediate magical source for making [...]
Losing Weight with Oprah Yet Again
Are you one of us who notices Oprah’s ups and downs in the weight department?
Did you see her at the end of last year confess to being fat again, even though we all could see the obvious?
Did you tune in early in January when she opened up this year’s weight loss “challenge” with her master [...]
Subtle Secret #1: Yellow as the Essence of Joy
The first of the Five Subtle Secrets I want to tell you about is The Yellow. And The Yellow is the Joy essence.
I think Rumi best captures the very nature of The Yellow in this simple sentence: “The soul is here for its own joy.”
But of course, if the word “joy” said it all for [...]
How to Get What You Just Don’t Get
A truly amazing example of what I’d call an open secret showed up in a story I heard awhile back about one of the famous explorers that we all learned about in history class. Except I don’t remember hearing this part back then.
It seems that when Magellan sailed the coast of South America into the [...]