Author: Angela Treat Lyon

I find myself consistently amazed at how much strife and upset there is to deal with on a daily basis now. Each day, I think, ‘this is the worst’ – but each day it all seems worse by magnitudes. What a mess. I laugh now – ruefully – that we thought, in the mid-50s, that […]

I miss only being a short walk to my favorite beach. I miss walking in the foam at the edge of the water, on the sand in my bare footses. I miss the ironwood trees and the stone boat ramp, and the little bitty islets out at the edge of the lagoon. The scent of […]

Every spring, I watch out my bedroom window as the red bud tree pops out into glorious color. First with tiny bunches of red/pink flowers, then with bright yellow-green heart-shaped baby leaves. You can see the sun through them, they are so transparent. And then, a silent signal blows across the world: Come the Bugs. […]

I’m so lucky! My neighbor has a huge camellia tree right next to the fence right outside my window. Entwined within many of its branches are those of a large red bud tree, most of its limbs reaching for the light over to my right, straining to get out from the camellia’s embrace. So I […]

All my life, I’ve just had this natural Thing, this urge, this compulsion towards anything to do with art – appreciating it, making it, talking about it, eating-sleeping-breathing it. Making some more . . . Back in school my fellow teen class mates were buying my pencil drawings left and right. In my 20s and […]

I hear this in so many places these days. But … but … how do I DO that, pray tell? I was told to think of our human vibrations, or frequencies, like a radio dial. An old-timey one, you know? Where you can see where the needle is on the face of the dial. Tune […]

Today as I shifted between just barely waking up and being fully awake after a nap, I had a dream/vision of a bunch of tall angels hanging out by my bed. They were waiting for me to pay attention – seems they get impatient with my need for sleep. They had a message for me: […]

As an empath, there are times when I feel so overloaded by happenings that I feel like a quivering mass of glommified human jelly. Useless for all except those who love hospital jello. I bet I’m not the only one who feels like that a whole lot of the time – the world is burning […]

Every cat who has made its home with me has loved to climb on up into my lap, plop itself unceremoniously down, and snore away. All day, if possible. No matter if I was working here on my puter, or eating dinner, or writing a book. Climb, plop, snore. Sometimes quite loudly. Oedipuss, a long-legged, […]

Ever thought about that? What if you had a silk scarf with your doggie’s portrait on it! Or, maybe you’d want to have one of your kitty, or your horse, or your hedgehog! Let’s get creative and have some fun, creating a scarf showing all the things you love about your critter. Then you can […]

It can be so hard! All this ughy stuff happening all around us, and we feel helpless, and even numb, like we can’t do a damn thing about any of it. So we sit eyes glued to screens as our energy dribbles and drabbles away and out of our bodies. STOP THAT! Don’t allow that […]

“But … but … I don’t know how!” Well bloody well learn how! Do you honestly think life is going to go on smooth as silk in the near future? Look at how our food chain has been majorly fked up by the terrible fires, floods and storms – that mean anything to you? You […]

Do you ever feel like you just can’t keep up with it all? Lately it’s as if all my attention has been sucked up by nasty shitty things people do. I don’t much like that. So instead of letting things bog me down, I have decided to take refuge in things I love, that make […]

Being bad and having fun in my red car when I was a teen on the purple road outside of town – seems like centuries ago! I was a very slow learner – it took me forEVER to figure out driving. I got distracted so easily my instructor almost threw me out of the driver […]

It wasn’t so bad. Although the astral kitty over by the door of my bedroom freaked out – “Go back! It’s not your Time! Hurry! Git outta here!” I’m sure his screaming could have been heard all the way across country in NYC! It wasn’t like the near death experiences so many people have. I […]

I saw a facebook reel today that really tickled me. It was yet one more coach-guru-advisor-etc guy. I almost scrolled past. But I stopped scrolling by when he said he had a unique way of transforming anxiety in only a minute or two. So since many of the folks I used to work with as […]

Three days ago, an excruciating pain up and stabbed me so bad it was like the spear of an ancient Centurion who hopped out of his grave and ran full-tilt all the way from Rome to jab the living shit out of my hip. I almost fell over on the spot. No one told me […]

You know how bears and other critters bulk up and get tubby fat in order to last long cold winter hibernation? Well, I’ve been wondering – when do their bodies decide it’s time to stop summer fun fooling around, and start packing on the serious L Bs in order to fatten up? I suppose for […]

I was 19. My favorite uncle, on vacation with family, drowned as he body-surfed the waves on a sunny Florida beach. Heart attack, they said. I was crushed. Not only because I loved the man, but because I had thought to call and tell him I loved him before they left, but never got around […]