Meditation practice

I'm meditating again with Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra. Their latest twenty-one day series started on August 11 and goes to the end of August. As they say:  Oprah & Deepak's 21-Day Meditation Experienceâ„¢ makes meditation easy, fun, and inspiring, offering daily guided audio meditations via an online, interactive program. Enjoy easy access to the daily program anytime, anywhere from your mobile phone, tablet or computer. Join our global community on each 21-Day Meditation Experience. Together, we will create lives filled with increased peace, joy, and wellbeing. I usually meditate before going to bed. It relaxes me and better prepares me for sleep. My husband chooses to meditate in the morning right after he wakes up. But when is not the operative word. What's important is making the time to do it. That's what I really like about these Oprah and Deepak 21-day meditation experiences. They get me back into it. Without their prodding, I don't meditate regularly. After … [Read more...]

Happy retirement, Barbara Walters

I couldn't let this day go by without a mention of Barbara Walters' retirement after fifty years in the news, views, and television specials business. I don't normally watch daytime television but I had to today, just to see her final appearance on The View, a show she created seventeen years ago. Barbara Walters was a huge role model for women in journalism, and on this day's episode of The View, Oprah Winfrey brought nearly every newswomen on the planet, said TNZ, to thank her for it.  She looked around at the dozens of young women standing around her and said, This is my legacy. And what a great legacy that is. Unfortunately my desire to work as a journalist and my training in journalism came a decade too soon. Even so, I thank her for what she has accomplished. The news business has not been the same since Barbara Walters became the first woman co-news anchor of the nightly news in 1976. Though her co-anchor at that time (Harry Reasoner) did not respect her or want a … [Read more...]