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Common Sense: Common Good

By Debra Basham, on November 5, 2020

Just when all the chips are down, the chins should be up.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

This morning I could feel a subtle pull to look at media, but everybody knows as soon as a winner of the Presidential election is resolved, that news will be widely known. So, why participate in any of […]

Condolences and Congratulations

By Debra Basham, on November 4, 2020

Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need for this bright morning dawning for you.

~ Maya Angelou

Yesterday’s Yellow Brick Road contained the foundation for today’s: Today 49% of the people will be disappointed. That assumes 51% will be relieved or glad.

While elections have winners and losers, we do not have […]

Vote!

By Debra Basham, on November 3, 2020

The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy. ~ John Lewis

Today is election day 2020. From my journal entry this morning:

Dear Holy Spirit,

Last evening while John was showering I picked up his phone to take photos for him […]

Imagine Healing

By Debra Basham, on November 2, 2020

Because humans process their subjective experience, in part, as pictures, when one says, “I just cannot see how I will get through all of this,” according to Dr. Emmett E. Miller, author of Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind/Body Medicine, we are not just hearing words, we may well be witnessing destiny.

~ From […]

Awaken the New Species

By Debra Basham, on November 1, 2020

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

~ Simone Weil

Yesterday John did not mention my blog post, so I did not share it with him. I watched the choice points for stories to arise: he doesn’t really care; he still does not value what […]

The Things that Frighten Us

By Debra Basham, on October 31, 2020

Denial and lies are almost an intrinsic part of an epidemic. ~ Nicholas A. Christakis

On the heels of the previously expressed idea that John and Debra (and you and yours!) truly are the macrocosm and microcosm, soon after my blog was posted yesterday morning I saw a post John made Tuesday on Facebook: […]

Which Wolf Will Win?

By Debra Basham, on October 30, 2020

You do not have to be an expert in the stars to recognize that a lot of heavy emotions are being triggered right now. If you are curious, however, you might appreciate at least some awareness of what the planets are doing.

According to Mars Retrograde Is About To Make Our Lives (& The […]

Compassion is Not a Luxury

By Debra Basham, on October 29, 2020

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

~ Roshi Joan Halifax

This morning I saw a headline “How Next Door Neighbors With Different Political Views Have Stayed Friends.” The photo […]

Need to Do

By Debra Basham, on October 28, 2020

You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.

~ Pablo Casals

Is this opening quotation, as it is written, true? Less and less I am concerned with being a doer, as more and more I am aware of the importance of […]

Someday When

By Debra Basham, on October 27, 2020

There are seasons in a marriage. I’ve heard a therapist say, “Every marriage has cause for divorce.” Not every day. But there are those days. ~ Deborah Berecz, Conflict as Catalyst™ Newsletter October 2020

In an email exchange last evening my dear friend who had asked me about any preference for a Presidential candidate wrote, […]

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