In the early hours of this Monday morning, I have California on my mind. Most specifically the beaches of Los Angeles. Now it would be hard to be just about anywhere right now and to not have heard about the horrendous apocalyptic fires that started last Tuesday in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. Fires that continue to burn as of this morning nearly a week later.

Welcome back from the holidays!

Yep, it is time to officially head directly into our accountability for the outcome of 2025 and it came to me that this topic of nagging could possibly help to start us off.

Sometimes you just have to put things to rest. Not because they don’t matter, but because they do.

All of our moments can change us. Sometimes the changes make us stronger, sometimes weaker, sometimes smarter, and sometimes the change is so slight we hardly even notice.

So, there I was trying to explain to Santa that indeed I should be on the nice list not the naughty list. However, through some technical glitch (or so I thought) there I was, on what I perceived to the be the wrong list! Or was I?! Has that ever happened to you?!

In this week’s video I share more about meditation success (something I am so passionate about) with the focus on how to ground yourself by finding a permanent place in your home to create your practice. Come see where I meditate each morning.

What if your 2025 started off with the commitment to start your day taking care of your beautiful mind first? How could that change the story for you for 2025. It’s worth a listen don’t you think?

Where were you in the 1960’s both mentally and physically?

And in asking this question I know for some of you reading this, you were just a sparkle in your Mama’s eyes back then. However, those of you, like me, who were around back in those days, what do you remember?

With that perhaps an idea for potential holiday gifting is a living plant. How about paperwhite or amaryllis flowers. A gift idea you can customize for your own taste by planting bulbs in pots that will bloom in the weeks and even months ahead in some cases. And then when they are gone, they are gone. Like so many elements of growth.

A new week begins, a new plot to the story line of where you will get to between today and the end of this week.

Let me first share some preplanned sweetness with this week’s video where I got to find gold at the end of my first season of growing Dahlia’s. At the end of every plant, I dug up I found the possibility of 10 to 15 more plants which are called tubers.