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Motherless Child

By Debra Basham, on May 20, 2021

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, A long way from home, a long way from home.

Odetta knew what LIFE can feel like.

Just yesterday — one day of LIFE holding sooooo much feeling.

A dear friend, navigating […]

What Else Is

By Debra Basham, on May 13, 2021

The definition of complaining is the expression of dissatisfaction or annoyance about something.

A popular phrase is to speak of an undesired state (for example, complaining) as your eating rat poison expecting the rat to die. It is not always obvious, but our emotional state has myriad influences on US.

Often, John and I […]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

By Debra Basham, on January 25, 2021

This post might be considered “The High Road Part 2.”

I learned to think of re-spect as the willing to look again and again.

I am not attending an eight-day workshop Healing and the Everhealed with Barbara Brodsky (January 23-30). It was very odd to not be guided to attend, especially given that my […]

Repercussions and Moral Awareness

By Debra Basham, on January 6, 2021

We are all volunteers, come to awaken ourselves and all human beings. ~ Aaron

A pithy line from the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors in the Hebrew Old Testament has been working on my heart. The story is familiar to many: Joseph, the youngest son and his father’s favorite, was given […]

2021 – A True Spiritual Path

By Debra Basham, on December 31, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today December 31, 2020

So often beings have a limited view of spiritual life that creates a duality in themselves, so that they only see themselves as ‘being spiritual’ when they’re being kind and loving.

When painful emotions arise, then they think, ‘I am no longer being spiritual. I […]

Warp and Weft

By Debra Basham, on December 18, 2020

This post begins with a reprint of a Sacred Story published December 23, 2017: “Husband’s Clothes:”

As she stood in line at the grocery store the man in front of her looked so much like her late husband it almost took her breath away. The same height, the same built, even a similar style of […]

Two Wings of Mindfulness

By Debra Basham, on December 15, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today

If one never were to experience this dark night of the soul, one’s compassion really would be limited.

One may have a belief, ‘I can be compassionate with that which is light and beautiful and loving in myself and others’ but one has never tested it to see […]

Grateful

By Debra Basham, on November 26, 2020

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

WORD […]

“Keeping Quiet”

By Debra Basham, on November 17, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today

When you stay in the relative reality box, you create the kind of fights with each other, ‘I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ You can’t hear each other. You become more and more polarized. And this of course is consonant with the lower stages of consciousness, […]

Lone Dove

By Debra Basham, on November 7, 2020

At the end of our Zoom dominoes game last night I asked if anybody knew what was going on with the election results. John said, “Biden won.” I was shocked. Linda clarified that results have not yet been declared because of laws suits.

John’s first comment when I asked him if he was OK […]

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