Author Archives: Davina

When I began writing this piece, I had pretty much worked it out in my head.  But then I began to challenge my own thinking.  Rather than simply eliminating the whole piece, I decided to rewrite it, and it became … Continue reading →

When I was a little girl, no more than ten, my father used to talk to me about Life.  He would tell me stories with lessons in them, or he would quote something and explain it to me.  The one … Continue reading →

“How do you live your life when no one is watching?” There is a story I have been told of two seekers who went to a holy being, wanting to find God.  So the guru said, “Look, it’s a big … Continue reading →

At a Christmas party last December our host asked what we were grateful for.  My first answer was “consciousness,” but then I remembered a story I read many years ago, and the effect it had on me.  A man was … Continue reading →

Home – Planet Earth.  We all live here, in the body of this planet.  How absurd it is that we work so hard to stay healthy, while at the same time we trash the home we live in, making it … Continue reading →

My name is Davina; I’m a retired teacher who still feels the call to teach or at least to give people the opportunity to learn.   This is the first day of my blog.   (Actually, I wrote the first entry months … Continue reading →

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning I … Continue reading →