Not Your Average BEE

I welcome the New Year with joy. I thank God that he continues to keep me and my family. The New Year is a magical time.  It is a time for reflection and rebirth . A new year is  a chance to regroup and a cause for much joy and celebration! The fresh start of a new year is an exciting opportunity to improve and become more than I am. It is a chance for reinvention and abundant happiness. To have great joy, I open my mind and my heart to what the New Year will bring. I avoid fearing the change that the ending of one year offers. I welcome change because it allows for growth. Change keeps things interesting and eventful. I find excitement and joy in every new experience. The New Year  provides me with an opportunity for reflection and growth . Each day provides that, but the changing of a year is more significant. As I reflect on the New Year, I realize all of the joy the past year brought to me. I reflect on the past year’s challenges, as well as its moments o...

Don't get sucked into the  "Narcissistic Vortex." If you are related to,  married  to or divorced from a  narcissist , then you know how difficult it is reason with them. Narcissists  are masters at manipulation. They are often intelligent and charming when you first meet them. In the beginning, you hold them to high esteem. They're fully aware of this, of course, and they  love  to bask in your adulation. But once you catch on to their tactics and question behavior that is the opposite of their once-charming selves, they become deeply threatened. They will then paint themselves as a victim and you as their aggressor, expertly blaming you for the relationship's demise and all other misfortunes in their life. You, as the co-dependent, try to reason with him, change his mind, or challenge every verbal assault point-by-point in hopes that the narcissist snaps out of his irrational behavior. Maybe this time he will understand,...

Part of the history of a bee involves y oung worker bees that are sometimes called "nurse bees". They clean the hive and feed the larvae. When their royal jelly-producing glands begin to swell, they begin building comb cells. They progress to other within-colony tasks as they become older, such as receiving nectar and pollen from foragers, and guarding the hive. Later still, a worker takes her first orientation flights and finally leaves the hive and typically spends the remainder of her life as a forager. This bee here is all buzzed out with the expectation that one self is to provide for others by any means necessary yet when it comes to the foraging bee no one is truly there.  And isn't that typical of LIFE?................... There are UPS and DOWNS, HIGHS and LOWS but s olitude is the creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposely abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God”...