Category Archives: Feeling Clearly

Exploring emotions, working to articulate and express them clearly, completely, and helpfully.

Yellow Stars & Uniforms

Posted on 26 October 2014 by Isabel Gibson

Will we triumph over evil? Continue reading →

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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu

Posted on 11 May 2014 by Isabel Gibson

A final zodiac ride back to the ship from the last excursion ashore: happenstance boat-mates exchange meaningful glances. A last nightly briefing from the cruise director at the pre-dinner get-together: small groups of friends make a point of sitting together … Continue reading →

Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality | Tagged | 8 Comments

Ribbons

Posted on 23 March 2014 by Isabel Gibson

A road trip from Phoenix to Las Vegas offers the opportunity to observe and appreciate the desert’s resilience, to think about Gordon Lightfoot’s music, and to consider the persistence of good and evil, respectively. Are we driving beside water? Straining … Continue reading →

Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, New Perspectives | Tagged | 10 Comments

Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane?

Posted on 09 February 2014 by Isabel Gibson

Wallowing in frustration with my bird-identification skills and despair at the complexity of things to learn, I am brought up short by the memory of good advice I gave to a then-young son (but have steadfastly refused to take, myself). … Continue reading →

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E is for Eye Doctor

Posted on 23 June 2013 by Isabel Gibson

The little kid within still carries a grudge against a suspicious school nurse from 40 years ago. Continue reading →

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The Place Where

Posted on 21 April 2013 by Isabel Gibson

A trip back to my place of birth and home for a few decades leads to ruminations on home – what it has been for deep thinkers and poets, and what it is for me. Home is the place where, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feeling Clearly, Through Space | Tagged | 12 Comments

Car Rentals and Incarnations

Posted on 24 March 2013 by Isabel Gibson

A delayed midnight arrival at Edmonton International is enlivened by a closed car-rental counter; the next day is enlivened by meeting a granddaughter for the first time.     Why are you here? It’s midnight local time, or oh-two-hundred body … Continue reading →

Posted in Feeling Clearly, Relationships and Behaviour | Tagged | 4 Comments

Hearts, Bears and Roses

Posted on 14 February 2013 by Isabel Gibson

An unexpected question about Valentine’s Day leads to the truth about relationships.   When is Valentine’s Day this year? The retired air force colonel and I are herding cats — aka running a proposal — and have taken a mental-health … Continue reading →

Posted in Feeling Clearly, Through the Calendar | Tagged | 8 Comments

The Gift of Faith

Posted on 25 December 2012 by Isabel Gibson

Celebrating the 12 days of Christmas with short reflections on 12 gifts Whether we are Christian or not, this 1st day of Christmas is an ideal day to rejoice in the gift of faith: faith in a god, in a … Continue reading →

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