Blue Skies Personal Wellness LLC

03/11/2026

One of the most profound teachings of the Buddha is simple, yet deeply transformative:

Attachment is the root of suffering.

At first, this idea can feel confusing.
Does it mean we should not love people?
Does it mean we should not care about life?

Not at all.

The Buddha was not warning against love.
He was warning against clinging.

There is an important difference.

Love is open, compassionate, and freeing.
Attachment, however, is when the mind begins to say:

• This must stay exactly as it is.
• This person must behave the way I expect.
• This situation must not change.

But life does not follow our expectations.

People change.
Circumstances change.
Health, relationships, success, and even life itself are constantly shifting.

This is the truth of impermanence.

When we cling tightly to things that are constantly changing, suffering naturally arises.

We suffer when relationships end.
We suffer when plans fail.
We suffer when reality does not match the story we created in our mind.

The suffering is not only in the event itself — it is in our resistance to change.

Imagine holding sand in your hand.

If you hold it gently, it stays.
But if you squeeze it tightly, it slips through your fingers.

Life works the same way.

The Buddha’s path does not ask us to stop loving.
Instead, it teaches us to love without possession, to care without control, and to appreciate things without clinging.

When we loosen our grip on expectations, something beautiful happens.

The mind becomes lighter.
Fear decreases.
Peace grows.

We begin to understand that happiness does not come from controlling life.

It comes from accepting its nature.

And perhaps the deepest wisdom is this:

🪷 When we stop trying to hold life too tightly, we finally learn how to live it.

03/09/2026

We can get to the part about monsters not being real soon, but starting with emotional validation helps them know that the fear behind the belief is valid, and that we love them. 💛

03/08/2026

in 1913, more than 5,000 women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. to demand the right to vote, marking the first suffrage parade and the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, D.C. changed the way protests were viewed and carried out by the American public, and laid the foundation for future marches.

The Procession, unprecedented in both its scale and its tactics, was a major turning point for the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Suffrage leader Alice Paul, who was recently elected head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s Congressional Committee, devised the idea for a large-scale public demonstration. Paul, who had spent time in England, witnessed the more militant tactics that the British suffragists used to draw attention to their cause.

Parade organizers strategically selected March 3, 1913 for the march. Woodrow Wilson was to be inaugurated as the new President the following day, and national press was in town and idly awaiting the inaugural festivities.

Paul insisted that the parade march down Pennsylvania Avenue, deliberately following the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day. The contrast between the two parades would prove striking. Reporters flocked to the suffrage parade, leaving Wilson to arrive at the train station unheralded.

Despite the chaos and violence that initially ensued during the parade, Paul declared the event a success. The parade made national headlines and once again captured the public’s interest in the suffrage movement. Even those who opposed votes for women acknowledged that, as citizens, the women had the right to peacefully assemble.

03/08/2026

2 weeks till spring. She’s getting close 🌸✨

03/08/2026