A Cool Book Group or Personal Read: Riding the Wave of Change: Hope, Healing and Spiritual Growth for our World by Eve Wilson

 From Wisdom-Magazine.com (Jan/Feb 2019 issue), I read an inteview with Eve Wilson about her book.I am always thinking of following up with the offers to get a book when it seems like 'an amazing way to think about our times and ways to address issues in our personal lives.' Much of what she said resonated with my growing sense that the ways our lives play out has more meaning than we are generally encouraged to consider. Thankfully I called to get a bit more information, and I was home a few days later to actually get her call.

She sounds like a wise, caring, insightful being. After a few minutes of sharing about this blog and some of my life journey, she encouraged me to review her book on this site. That was a a few steps ahead of what I had imagined, but I'm up for the venture. Hopefully you can get a copy of the e-book  or print copy and add your insights as well. The contact info is as follows: Info/ Purchase: www.evewilson-ridingthewave.com  She also has a FB page EveWilson.BridgeToWholeness. Her award-winning blog is The Weekly Word for Healing and Ascension Blog which can be found at www.spiritualhealers.com/blog She offers some free programs and ways to work with her for a fee for classes or sessions at www.spiritualhealers.com.

Check out the print interview for free. Her other offerings can be found at www.SpiritualHealers.com or by calling 734-780-7635. I'll add more as I follow up with reading the book, Riding the Wave of Change.

This time of March 2019 is a critical time for our country and world so I am grateful for this resource 'coming my way'. According to the Wisdom Magazine interview with Eve Wilson, she studied the Qabalah for many years and informs her book. She offers  her own 'unique, non-sectarian perspective' on how this "ancient Judaic discipline' can assist people in modern and trying times. Like many fields of meaningful study, taking a half-hour or  more weekly over a month or more may be a reasonable way to consider the new ideas and find time to reflect on them with a friend or in a journal.

With the blog post Remembering Kaelan Alexander Palmer Paton, I have explored how our late teen son's passing may have had more factors to consider for important reasons for our times. Many pressing issues seem to be begging our attention and can become 'meaningful case studies' to review with various lenses to glean lessons and wisdom for our times.

The  annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference (BMCC) in Albany NY this year is a humble but mighty effort (as is CA Protective Parents Association) to seek justice for the most vulnerable and youngest members of our American society and even those in other countries. When the shared values of safety, respect and basic support come into the fore, many problems will likely 'right themselves'.

Acting more coherently as team players is part of the growing wisdom and shared value set. Ideally everybody could have a buddy or two (or more) to help them keep track of basic physical, mental and social health so small conflicts do not escalate or deter someone from having an intervention for the benefit of themselves and others.

When the kind of 'response' can be delivered in a humane, reasonable way, ideally an imbalanced person can seek to mend their ways and be accountable with others helping them to do 'the next right thing' to play well with others and live with safety and fair play in mind whether in life, on the road, at work or school, in personal relationships or even with an internal struggle (with mental or physical difficulties or substances, whether legal or illegal, or other challenges--overspending, over eating, hoarding, etc.)

 Journaling, talking with support people and having more of a team effort in living life are personal tipa from yours truly.  I'll look to follow them as well. Some of what I do on this blog is just that. Many times my fingers can barely keep up with summarizing an idea or making a connection, but at least I have some basics to refer back to. I read for instance that at the Vassar College Convocation 2018, English Professor Amitava Kumar spoke about "You Will Not Remember All of This" in terms of special moments in one's life or even simpler times, yet by keeping a journal with snapshots or more meaningful descriptions you can do just that. In the digital age we all have hundreds of emails likely, to help recapture times and the voices of those we have had relationship with or are still connected to.

I recall another speaker at a Convocation back in the 1980s highlighting the importance of journaling, whether historically or in modern times. My times of giving myself permission to 'let ideas flow freely' or with prompts or see concerns and ideas through with pen and paper or more often nowadays with a keyboard, go back to grade school when we could write 'three pages in a composition notebook' or more. We were not graded on any content just given the prompt to fill the pages with whatever we wanted whether real or imaginary, ideas or questions.

The Vassar Quarterly often has many inspiring articles of a page or more, summarizing what is going on in the Vassar Community whether with the current students or alumni or the wider community. Very exciting news in the Fall 2018 issue is that the Vassar and Dutchess Community College will be joining forces to allow students of both colleges to take classes at each other's campuses. I'm excited to see what I may be able to take advantage of as an alumnae now that I have a bit more free time.

Maybe 'something meant to be' or in the works from over the years will take root. Today I enjoyed a talk by Theresa Freund of Freund's Farm in Canaan CT about how their business came into being over the generations and is modernized in many ways with the help of grants and loans.

The listing of events in The Shopper's Guide as well as The Lakeville Journal and The Berkshire Eagle are worth checking out if you are in the tri-corner MA/NY CT area or wanting to get inspired to enrich your community with ways to network and enrich offerings with your natural local community social groups. Thanks for taking time to Tune Into Your  Local and Wider Groups who are nurturing important personal, professional and other ties. Season the offerings with insights from the past, the present wealth of thinkers and dreamers...and the future full of people who will appreciate or benefit from our collective efforts who as my late Mother would say are all 'worth it', including Y-O-U!