By Debra Basham, on July 14, 2015
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. I first heard this quotation by Pablo Picasso watching a YouTube video of Amanda Palmer talking about being an artist. “Connecting The Dots” is about the way digital publishing has leveled the playing field and how […]
By Debra Basham, on July 5, 2015
There are no problems, there are only situations that ask for your loving attention. ~ Aaron I was blessed to be the guest speaker at Pilgrim Congregational Church and some requested I share these practical suggestions for how you can keep an open heart and experience true freedom. Pema Chödrön suggests when […]
By Debra Basham, on June 29, 2015
Yesterday we celebrated my mother-in-law’s 92nd birthday. What a wonderful surprise to see her name up on the sign in the sanctuary at church!
It is truly remarkable to think about how much everyday life has changed in her lifetime. Here are a few highlights from the year she was born: First […]
By Debra Basham, on June 20, 2015
We live in an illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. You are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all. ~ Kalu Rinpoche As a child I loved puzzles. As an adult I enjoy Buddhist teachings. […]
By Debra Basham, on June 7, 2015
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
This has been a very nostalgic week. I received an email message from a woman I worked with some time ago. Her email message:
I don’t know if you remember me or not. I was a patient in the early […]
By Debra Basham, on May 26, 2015
It turned out to be a beautiful day, even though it started out cloudy and sprinkled a bit at the end of the Memorial Day Parade. The sky is now ribbons of blue and pink. It has been a day of memories for me, for sure, as May 25, 2003, we had my […]
By Debra Basham, on May 19, 2015
I look at the post date of my previous blog entry and I realize it was 13 days ago. Where has all the time gone? These days are extra busy. I find myself doing laundry after ten and making soup before nine.
We brought my mother-in-love home from the hospital on oxygen where […]
By Debra Basham, on May 3, 2015
I am listening to Jon Kabat-Zinn talking about the difference between thinking and awareness. The gift in listening is that it has turned off the fears of dying, and the preoccupation that there might be something wrong with me. I can point to the “facts” connected to my concerns, such as that my right […]
By Debra Basham, on April 20, 2015
I have been revisiting a pattern of physical pain that was years ago key in my journey. Back then—ah, interesting—it was a “back” problem that caused me to quit my job and totally redirected the work I do in the world. It is how I became interested in holistic health, and it is […]
By Debra Basham, on April 3, 2015
Years ago, I opened a sermon with this illustration: Three guys have been stranded on a desert island for a very long time when one of them finds a magic lantern containing a genie. The genie grants them each one wish. The first guy wishes he was off the island and back home─and […]
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