Roses on your pillow at Hotel Carlton (from the hands of Theo McKinney)

Byriehlifegrace October 12, 2007October 12, 2007

That “30th anniversary” picture represents the usual welcome I like to surprise visitors with when they come to town to celebrate a honeymoon or romantic anniversary; the petals are real, and, whenever I can find out secretly in advance what the actual wedding flowers were, I try my best to get that flower and color to make the heart shape out of. Living in California makes so many things possible!

After all, the flower choice is usually such a personal one for the bride that I figure it will always resonate with the couple on some level if their same selection should suddenly magically reappear as a surprise when they first enter their room in a strange land. I get more tears that way! (Happy ones, of course) This picture was posted on tripadvisor.com by one of our stunned anniversary guests.

Connecting to the Earth: A Place to Setttle

Byriehlifegrace September 30, 2007September 30, 2007

“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.” —Rainer Maria…

Thich Nhat Hahn Room Featured Communion of Institute of Noetic Sciences’ “Shift in Action”

Byriehlifegrace March 11, 2008March 11, 2008

Beautiful multi-media presentation fully worthy of the topic “The End of Suffering.” Brooks Cole who hosts the Thich Nhat Hahn Room introduces it in this way: Very seldom as a media artist do I have the opportunity to be so moved by the material that I am composing with that tears are streaming down my…

A Young Boy Learns to Pray: bedtime vespers

Byriehlifegrace November 18, 2007June 2, 2008

My niece Janean (by way of my brother Gary) is such a good mother. She wrote this touching email to my father who shared it with me. Now Janean has agreed to share it with all of you. It’s a fine example, I think, of moral and spiritual education…of giving structure, but also, giving space….

Timing is all.

Byriehlifegrace July 1, 2008

Timing and destiny and yearning. What determines the timing of manifestation? All coordinates come together. Happening on god’s time, not ours.

Excerpt from William Blake’s “On Another’s Sorrow”

Byriehlifegrace August 19, 2007August 19, 2007

Here is one stanza from a nine stanza poem by William Blake that appears in “Songs of Innocence.” I read it as speaking of compassion as part of our interdependent connection…and a sense of spiritual care. –JGR ON ANOTHER’S SORROW (stanza 1 of 9) Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too?…

Theo McKinney: Spiritual Path and Guest Service Viewpoint Revelation

Byriehlifegrace October 14, 2007October 14, 2007

Riehlife: Theo, do you have a spiritual path you follow? Does this come into play with your view of guest service? Theo: When I was growing up in White Plains, New York, my parents often took us to different types of religious service, from Presbyterian to Catholic, 7th Day Adventists to readings of the Torah….

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