Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 July 2020 Nine-year-old Michaela Munyan, is CEO and sole seamstress of an unincorporated operation. Michaela had learned to sew hair scrunchies in an after-school program, so when her school was shut down because of the coronavirus, she did something constructive. She found a pattern and made a mask. Then she found a YouTube video about batch sewing […]
Posted June 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 June 2020 As the 4th of July comes around it looks as though social-distancing measures to mitigate risks of contracting COVID-19 are likely to be with us for a while. Although Marie Curie said “the way of progress is neither swift nor easy,” there are ways that we can all still let freedom ring on Independence Day.
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Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 May 2020 “Death isn’t quite as scary as the exhilarating terror of trying to accept life.”
Carlsbad, California, June 2006, “The Scariest Thing,”, AA Grapevine
Accepting life right now means adapting to a lot of change. By the first of June, in the past many years, I would have for a couple of months been comfortably settled […]
Posted April 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 April 2020 The way we experience time is not the same for everyone, and it changes for us moment-to-moment. NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) is the study of the structure of experience, and our subjective experience relative to time is about as subjective as one can get….
This past December, January, and February our time “flew” while we were […]
Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 September 2019 Early one morning, sunlight on the morning dew illuminated this intricate spider web stretched between our two bird-feeding stations. Still in my nightwear, I grabbed my iPhone, slipped my feet into my ‘yard shoes’ and went out to snap some photos. The ‘seemingly impossible’ is nature’s way.
Most everyone has seen spider webs suspended […]
Posted July 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 July 2019 “…to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparent insignificance.”~ Thomas Moore Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Recently I submitted this letter to the editor of our local newspaper:
Dear […]
Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 June 2019 Have you noticed how something that is difficult to learn can be made much easier with humor? Training with Richard Bandler and John LaValle often resulted in our jaws hurting from laughing so hard. Joel and Debra infused SCS/NLP trainings with humor, too, including those who were laughing at our foibles behind our backs and […]
Posted May 31, 2019 in Uncategorized By Debra Basham, on 31 May 2019 Think of past and present time as layers of “times”. “Times” that we have stored that are still available for exploration, rediscovery, editing and expansion, and capable of being re-lived through our current awareness. ~ Jean Houston
Chatting with a friend about chakras, I asked her if her feet are often cold. “Oh, […]
Posted November 30, 2018 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 30 November 2018 It’s a troublesome world.
All the people who’re in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not. ~ Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss’ words remind me of an article by Max Lucado in Guideposts magazine titled […]
Posted December 9, 2017 in Monthly News By Debra and Joel, on 9 December 2017 Happy New Year!
Every moment presents opportunity for new beginnings. Even though most would agree, there are still those who are frustrated with the way things are and focus more on what makes them (and us) miserable instead of on what relieves the misery. The reality is almost everyone is here with […]
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