Entries Tagged as 'Team Posts'
Where is your Happy place?
Tracy’s trying real hard to get there~
Have you ever felt like you just wanted to escape from life in general, if even for a moment! You try desperately to tune out everything and everybody around you. You start to day dream of where you would much rather be ….it’s called [...]
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Tags: Abraham·aligned·appreciation·balance·Bonnie Johnson·family·fuzzy·jacquie janzen yee·Law of Attraction·mental state·My Happy Place·positive·Rarotonga·The Cooke Islands·Tracy Westerholm·warm·writing
There are literally thousands of representations of the Goddess Arya Tara to be found on the internet, in print form and as statues. She is the oldest Goddess still worshiped extensively in modern times and can be found in pretty much every cultural back story on the planet. Of all the images of Tara out [...]
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Tags: Akiko Michael·archetype·arya tara·Bonnie Johnson·Buddha·compassion·Dalai Lama·deities·Enlightenment·generosity·Goddess·Green Tara·inner wisdom·jacquie janzen yee·Line drawing·lotus·patience·Red Tara·road to enlightenment·spiritual travel·Tracy Westerholm·White Tara·wisdom
Okay Girls, we’re going back to school for a semester, what are you signing up for?
Tracy signs up for~
I have been spending time with my friend Kelsey who has completed her 3rd year in Human Kinetics. Kels puts every ounce of her being into her studies, which is reflected in her marks. Each time [...]
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Tags: Bonnie Johnson·Caterwauls·creative writing·education·Human Kinetics·jacquie janzen yee·jewelry·love story·psychological·Robert Westerholm·romance·school·semester·silver smithing·Spanish·theology·Tracy Westerholm·UBC
Here’s the Wikipedia explanation:
Polyamory (from Greek [poly, meaning many or several] and Latin amor [love]) is the practice, desire, or acceptance of having more than one intimate sexual relationship at a time with the consent of everyone involved.
Polyamory, often abbreviated to poly, is sometimes described as consensual, ethical, or responsible non-monogamy.
How do you feel about [...]
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Tags: adultry·authenic·Bonnie Johnson·cheating·dating·flirting·friends with benefits·guilt·honesty·intimancy·jacquie janzen yee·love·married men·monogomy·polyamory·relationship·romantic·secrecy·sex·Tracy Westerholm
Whether you did or didn’t ~ what did you learn from the experience?
Jacquie loses all vestiges of her humanity and wallops the living daylights out of …this topic ~
A photo released to the press a while ago sparked pseudo-outrage when it showed a very angry nanny grabbing the arm of one of the cherubic Gosselin [...]
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Tags: Bonnie Johnson·boundaries·child abuse·discipline·humiliate·jacquie janzen yee·kids·naughty chair·spanking·Tracy Westerholm
Bonnie who?~
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia, quoted in Words from the Wise: Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said
When I pass [...]
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Tags: authenically·Bonnie Johnson·conditioning·example·honest·jacquie janzen yee·kids·life lessons·minority·positive·remembered·Scott Wellenbrink·Tracy Westerholm
Jacquie speaks up ~ Mackenzie Phillips was on Oprah last week ‘opening up’ about her 10 year incestuous relationship with her father John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. I didn’t watch but I picked up the gist of it on Internet sites and so-called news programs that ran sound bites for days afterwards.
I’m [...]
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Tags: 60's·Bonnie Johnson·incest·jacquie janzen yee·Jerry Springer·Mackenzie Phillips·Mamas and the Papas·musical·Oprah·sex·TMZ·Tracy Westerholm
Alright Goddesses, what is one thing on your Bucket list you have yet to do?
Tracy has yet to~
I want to live in a Spanish speaking country until I can finally speak the language fluently~ At some point in the future I would love to live in either Spain or Mexico. I love the sound of [...]
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Tags: bucket list·learn to speak French·learn to speak Spanish·Machu Picchu·Peace One Day·vision board
Bonnie’s Happy Place~ Of course everything that happened in my life has influenced who I am today, but the one that sticks out the most for me is the summer I spent with my grandparents when I was seven. They lived on some acreage about an hour outside of Penticton, BC. There was no [...]
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Tags: Europe·family·jacquie janzen yee·Kasbah·memories·parents·racism·tolerance·Tracy Westerholm·travel
Jacquie~ That word ‘compelling’ here is a bit of a bugaboo for me. What blog out there am I compelled to visit on a regular basis besides The Purse Blog (really, not just about bags!), The Sartorialist (great photos and social commentary) and Newser (two-bite brownie sized news nibblies)? Much like the hated scale, [...]
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Tags: blog·crazy sexy life·green is sexy·huffington post·maryanne live·Newser·Ode Magazine·redneck mommy·The Sartorialist·Tracy Westerholm·UK Daily Mail·unique scoop
Okay ladies if you could Relive One Day all over again what day would you pick and why?
Tracy Relives the Past~
While running last Saturday August 15th 2009 which is my son Jesse’s birthday I couldn’t help but reflect back on that day eleven years ago. Jesse was my first child, who gave me the gift [...]
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Tags: baby·birth·Bonnie Johnson·falling in love·jacquie janzen yee·kids·love·mother·past·pregnant·relive·soul mate·Tracy Westerholm·Women's Lib
(Scroll down to see photos of the big day)
Tracy Gets Inked! Today I got Inked!! (twice) I have wanted to for years and until now the design and placement has never seemed quite right. This was not a spontaneous event for me, it was planned and thought out long before the ink went on my [...]
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Tags: Artwork·Bonnie Johnson·Fraser Pattison·Genesis Tattoo·Inked·jacquie janzen yee·lotus·tara cronica·Tattoo·tiara·Tracy Westerholm
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber
Our deepest fear is not that we [...]
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Tags: Bonnie Johnson·brownie camp·creep·facing fear·fear·freedom·jacquie janzen yee·memories·outdoor school·scary·slumber parties·Tracy Westerholm·truth