Just Ducky

It has not quite yet been a month since we arrived back home in Michigan. Today I am somewhere beneath the hustle and bustle of the world of spring and window cleaning business. The sun did come out to lure me away from my lists of tasks. A pair of ducks seemed grateful […]

Our Larger Destiny

Legend has said that one day many centuries ago, Tara  was meditating and chanting her mantra in her Lotus Buddha Field, when some monks happened by. They felt her powerful vibrations and profound meditational energy, and they said, “Oh, Yogini  [female practitioner], you are such an excellent spiritual practitioner. In the future may […]

Leaf Floating in a Puddle

I was blessed to spend the weekend at a “no-frills” meditation retreat at the Howell Nature Center with nine others. The format for the weekend is silent practice. In fact, you have precious little free time, but I found amazing freedom. The schedule mixes sitting meditation with active meditation, and much of […]

Hands and Hearts

Every day I say prayers for those I know are going through challenges of life. Sometimes is it for one of my grandchildren, navigating the potholes along the road from childhood. I maintain contact with friends and with colleagues and several “prayer circles” so I often share those requests for support. Prayer has […]

A Writer is Born

Cover of Encore Magazine, picked up April 4, 2013, at breakfast book club.          At the age of 12, poet George Leslie Norris (1921-2006) says walls began to speak to him and his life as a writer was born! As he tells it, “I put my finger on the wall and […]

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