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• Releasing Attachment
  on Feb 12, 2010 in margot potter releasing attachment finding the zen mind self love
  (Painting by Anthony Frederick Augusts Sandys)I think one of the hardest things to process is the realization that we can not change who we are to please others and the more we put ourselves out there, the more we open ourselves to being judged. That...
• Zuzu's Petals
  on Dec 29, 2009 in margot potter finding the zen mind zuzu's petals mindfulness letting go
  (Image from It's a Wonderful Life copyright Frank Capra)Zuzu's PetalsCopyright 2008 Margot PotterIt is easy in the day to day drudgeries of life to fall into a stupor and lose clarity. It’s dulling, the chopping of the wood and the carrying of the...
• The Christmas Angel
  on Dec 23, 2009 in margot potter embracing holiday joy vintage German wax Christmas angel Christmas
  Where the hell did the time go?! I've been MIA here for a while again. Busy as a little bee I'm afraid, but here I am.This is a post I took down in the great blog removal...and it's a sad tale with a happy ending. The joyful part is that I've fina...
• Obtuse
  on Nov 10, 2009 in margot potter the straw pile seeking joy SAD
  I have neglected this little blog again and as I have clearly posted a Blogging Without Obligation widget in my sidebar I'm trying not to feel too badly. It's that busy, hectic, frenetic time of year when I've got far too many irons in far too many f...
• Reboot
  on Oct 5, 2009 in margot potter ott-lite the shopping channel writing my first novel
  Image Copyright Vaughan BassSo last week was a little rocky, but that's life. If it was always smooth sailing, we'd get bored. Sometimes we need to be shaken a little to get us moving in new directions. I've refocused my energies on the novel I've st...
• Keep Your Hands on the Wheel
  on Oct 2, 2009 in margot potter charting your own course taking the wheel personal responsibility trusting your intuition being distracted by shiny things
  Image Copyright Enoch BollesI had an idea. It was a really good idea if I do say so myself and I just did. I spent over a year working really hard on this idea. I researched it. I contemplated it. I nurtured it. I worked to make it a totally marketab...
• Round and Round and Round She Goes
  on Sep 28, 2009 in margot potter dysfunction child abuse child molesters roman polanski denial and secrecy the wheels of karma
  Although I'm liberal on most things, when it comes to abuse of children, I've got absolutely no mercy for the abusers. In fact, I think we have no use for them at all in society. I think people who physically and sexually abuse children should get th...
• Folding Inward
  on Sep 25, 2009 in margot potter brooding irish melancholia big dreams hope autumn
  Lady Lilith by Dante Gabriel RossettiI am exhausted. I've been hitting a wall at around 3pm every day. It's autumn, I'm afraid. Something about the transition of summer into fall completely saps my energy. Perhaps that's natural. It's a time of foldi...
• Twilight Time
  on Sep 24, 2009 in margot potter making dinner food issues diets twilight time
  This is what I like to call "twilight time." Not because it's actually twilight or because of books about teenaged vampires written by a nice midwestern Mormon lady that I don't ever plan on reading. I call it "twilight time" because it's the small...
• Compassion
  on Sep 23, 2009 in margot potter assisted suicide compassion the right to die with dignity
  I often ponder why it is that we treat sick animals with more compassion than sick humans. If an animal is suffering and dying, we put them to sleep. We don't even think about the alternative, because we know it is the right thing to do. We 'put them...

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