Seeking Shama https://www.seekingshama.com The many roads to inner peace Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:12:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 52781216 Release Thoughts—An Open Letter to the New Year—2025 https://www.seekingshama.com/2025/01/release-thoughts-an-open-letter-to-the-new-year-2025.html Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:41:59 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1558 Dear 2025, Thoughts are like the current of a running stream. Place your hand in the water and it flows through your fingers. You can’t grasp liquid, no matter how hard you try. Just like with water, it’s impossible to hold your thoughts because they aren’t solid objects. Your brain keeps them moving, constantly generating […]

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]]> 1558 Jax and the Bear in the Tree https://www.seekingshama.com/2024/10/jax-and-the-bear-in-the-tree.html Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:47:28 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1548 One of the last things she said to me was, “This is so hard.” What is so hard?, I had wanted to ask. Is it the pain? Is it saying goodbye? Is it leaving your daughters and knowing you won’t watch your grandchildren grow up? Is it surrendering to the invisible after fighting for so […]

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]]> 1548 Micro Moments of Magic—An Open Letter to the New Year – 2024 https://www.seekingshama.com/2024/01/micro-moments-of-magic-an-open-letter-to-the-new-year-2024.html Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:17:49 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1539 Dear 2024, Fourteen years ago, when I was in the middle of a five-month road trip driving around the country seeking shama (inner peace), I started an annual tradition of writing a letter to the new year. I’ve largely kept all my resolutions, and I like to think that they have helped me grow with […]

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]]> 1539 I Flew Across Country and Met My Dog’s Sister https://www.seekingshama.com/2023/05/i-flew-across-country-and-met-my-dogs-sister.html Wed, 03 May 2023 21:15:42 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1522 “Is this weird?” Our eyes met and we burst out laughing. The windshield wipers squeaked in response, as if to drive home the point that this was, indeed, very weird. It was Easter Sunday. My husband, Eric, and I had been in the backseat of an Uber for the past 45 minutes. Our suitcases were […]

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]]> 1522 An Open Letter to The New Year – 2023 https://www.seekingshama.com/2023/01/an-open-letter-to-the-new-year-2023.html Sun, 01 Jan 2023 20:32:24 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1516 Dear Year 2023, I’m writing my twelfth annual open letter to the new year from isolation. Covid finally got me, and because Eric is healthy and we want him to remain that way for his January concert tour, I have barely left the bedroom since Monday. He was at the same holiday party as me 10 […]

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]]> 1516 The World is Ugly. We are Lucky to Live in It. https://www.seekingshama.com/2022/06/the-world-is-ugly-we-are-lucky-to-live-in-it.html Sun, 05 Jun 2022 18:21:12 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1502 How is it that we are living through an unthinkable period in world history? If presented with a screenplay that included everything we are experiencing, the former Hollywood executive in me would say that there is no way that all this tragedy—all at once—would be believable in a movie. We are living through it in […]

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]]> 1502 An Open Letter to The New Year – 2022 https://www.seekingshama.com/2022/01/an-open-letter-to-the-new-year-2022.html Thu, 06 Jan 2022 21:58:11 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1498 Dear 2022, Year 2021 was one big whoosh. One would think time would crawl when plodding wearily through the second year of a global pandemic. Yet despite being cloaked in disquiet about the ongoing Covid crisis, numerous climate disasters, and all the horrible things that go along with both, I have gratitude for much of […]

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]]> 1498 Lily and Me https://www.seekingshama.com/2021/10/lily-and-me.html Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1489   Pearl and Maude are the new regulars at our woodsy New Jersey home that we call Shama Sanctuary. Pearl has close-set beady eyes and carries with her an air of superiority. She’s a bully, snorting and chasing off the twin orphans, Precious and Petunia, who are yearning for companionship. To show her dominance she’ll […]

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]]> 1489 An Open Letter to the New Year – 2021 https://www.seekingshama.com/2021/01/an-open-letter-to-the-new-year-2021.html https://www.seekingshama.com/2021/01/an-open-letter-to-the-new-year-2021.html#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:05:31 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1477 Dear 2021, You are a mystery. Well actually, every new year is a mystery—what will it bring? But you are a ginormous mystery with the state of the world being as it is. I’ve been looking forward to meeting you for quite some time. But now that you are here, well, right off the bat […]

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]]> https://www.seekingshama.com/2021/01/an-open-letter-to-the-new-year-2021.html/feed 9 1477 Slugs = Shama https://www.seekingshama.com/2020/12/slugs-shama.html https://www.seekingshama.com/2020/12/slugs-shama.html#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:19:40 +0000 http://www.seekingshama.com/?p=1468 It’s December and we just completed a final harvest of our pandemic vegetable garden. December! Considering our first planting was in March, that’s one helluva long time in NJ to be eating veggies grown in one’s backyard. We grew rainbow carrots, a medley of radishes, pole beans, bush beans, snow peas, sugar snap peas, kale, […]

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