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This guest blog was written by Barbara Govednik.   If tea leaves can give a glimpse into the future, could flecks of ash offer insights on attachment to an outcome? Absolutely. Last month, I was stuck in London longer than expected when the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption hovered thick and unyielding over British airspace. I didn’t think much of it at first. My husband and I arrived Thursday, the same day as the ash cloud, but we had taken the train from Paris. There was no impact on our travels, just lots of anticipation for a fun weekend with a dear friend.    By Sunday, though, the cloud hadn’t budged, Heathrow Airport was a ghost town and the closest cities with functioning airports were Madrid and Rome.  No one knew when things would clear. A queasiness grew within me as I ate breakfast and tried to read [...]

I think we all have a capacity to tolerate a lot of things in our life.  But what happens when you find yourself settling for things that you really don’t want to settle for? This happened to me a week ago.  My husband and I recently sold our house.  It happened so fast that we were not ready for the “buy” side of the transaction.  So, to take the pressure off, we decided, let’s just rent for a short time and figure out where we want to go next as we transition to being ‘empty nesters’.  Now, there were many variables I had to put into this equation, and I thought I was doing a good job of putting everything into the mix.  That was what I thought . . .  until . . .  I went along with a choice my husband and son wanted that I didn’t want.  [...]