"Radically ridiculously and without conditions love yourself. That’s it. Everything else will take care of itself."

Adell SHay

Adell Shay was the embodiment of the Greek term en theus, the indwelling spirit.

A renaissance woman, mentor writer, painter, educator she was accomnplished and celebrated in the third dimension.

Most compelling was Adell’s thirst for Spirit. Her greatest joy, tirelessly sharing her scar tissue and transcendent insights with other women, encouraging them to broaden and deepen their personal search through love and service to others.

To Adell from Jay – Oscar Wilde’s Panthea

Columns

She has been writing since the 80’s. Feel free to browse through them if you just want a refresher on what Adell Shay wrote from those days.

Thanksgiving
– November 25, 2003

I pass the smiling faces for weeks, maybe months, and never see them. Back and forth from the living room to the kitchen, I glide or tip toe or clomp hurriedly in an attempt to get wherever I am running late. I am always running late, it seems.

Today, I stop in front of the faces anyway. I smile too; I can’t help it. The memory of that night always makes me smile. The faces belong to new lovers standing in front of a lapping ocean on the sand. The sunset behind them seems like a backdrop, for it is too beautiful to be real.