10/21/2026
What I’ve learned so far as I turn 71 today:
* Everything you have been through has purpose and is a part of you. It happened for a reason. Make peace with it. Go to therapy, uncover the trauma, heal, forgive and let’s go!
* Anything you’ve done to hurt another needs your attention and asking for forgiveness. Feel grateful for forgiveness.
* Anytime you climb back into your car or form of transportation after an interaction with a friend or relative and you feel like the air has been punched out of you, reconsider that relationship. Trust energy.
* If you’ve spent the bulk of your life being of service to something or someone who doesn’t value you, make an abrupt change. It’s not going to get better. Get away from the disrespect.
* It’s never too late to be creative. We are all capable of it and if you had to table it or found juggling responsibilities was what was most needed to be done or you just weren’t all baked yet, when the timer goes off to begin, jump in with joy! Ignore naysayers and your inner critic and explore until you’ve turned over every stone in your treasure chest of ideas.
* Be authentic. Rinse and repeat. Beat down the inner critic and speak, act, do.
* Be a feminist. “A feminist is one who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”- Gloria Steinem
*Read! Put down the phone and pick up a magazine, novel, book and read. Save yourself.
* Ask LOVE for help with all problems. Say, “LOVE, I don’t know how to do this, etc.” LOVE never fails.
* Be a f*cking good parent. There’s a tiny window as a parent and then it closes. NOTHING MATTERS MORE THAN THAT CHILD IN THAT MOMENT. Listen, watch, applaud, counsel and grow that darling into a work of art completely capable of carrying themselves into adulthood.
*Be a f*cking good grandparent. Quality, quality, quality, every chance given. Be awake and open no matter what limitations have developed in the elder years.
* Hug, kiss, eyeball, and dream. Never deny the heart. It, like love, never fails.
Love,
Sheela
