Posted June 1, 2021 in Monthly News

I Am Not Afraid

I am old enough at this point to be fully aware that I am close enough to the end of the tunnel that I can see it. There was a time that the end of the tunnel was a vague light in the distance. At this point, it is close enough that I am beginning […]

Posted June 1, 2021 in Monthly News

I Am Awake!

If we are aware in a compassionate, focused way, we plant seeds of compassionate focused awareness that lets things go and lets things be. Joyful feelings are free to arise without creating clinging, and painful states can arise without expressing themselves in harmful ways.

~ Ben Connelly, “Cleaning Out the Storehouse”

I’ve been reading […]

Posted November 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Choose to be Helped

A woman friend of mine was at work (here in Michigan) when a co-worker received a call that the woman’s daughter was in critical condition and going into emergency surgery in Texas. This mother was understandably distraught. Even if she left right at that moment she could not get from Michigan to Texas before the […]

Posted June 30, 2018 in Monthly News

The Kindest Cut

I base my title on a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The original refers to Caesar’s betrayal by Brutus. Being stabbed by his friend was Caesar’s unkindest cut. My recent cut was for surgical purposes: I had a hernia that needed repair, and the only way to repair a hernia is to cut through layers […]

Posted July 31, 2017 in Monthly News

Changing Frames

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer

In an 1819 letter to his brother and sister, the poet John Keats said the common notion that life is “a vale of tears … from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary […]

Posted December 31, 2016 in Monthly News

Let's Laugh

After having my blood pressure be relatively stable since August after it spiked in May of this year, it spiked again last week. I am once again surrendering to the release of old emotional patterns. (You may appreciate reading my earlier blog post if this is news to you: Three Days Without Anxiety Medication.)

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Posted November 30, 2016 in Monthly News

What Your Soul Wants You to Know

In May of 2006 I sat in the front row of the room, within spitting distance of Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul. He and Linda Francis were speaking on authentic power. Linda’s major claim to fame might have been her connection to Zukav, but I will always remember her for this comment: […]

Posted September 30, 2015 in Monthly News

The Altering Eye

In The Mental Traveller, the nineteenth-century poet William Blake says, “For the eye altering alters all.” In the poem, Blake is exploring the spiritual history of humanity as well as his own spiritual history. Regardless of the degree to which we are aware of it, we all have a spiritual history and a sense of […]