By Debra Basham, on August 21, 2023 I was restless at bedtime last night. It had been a pleasant day but late in the evening I got a text from a friend who had ended up at the ER over the weekend, John’s bedtime blood pressure reading was a bit elevated, and I read an email from a person who is asking […]
By Debra Basham, on June 17, 2023 The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within. ~ Ruby Dee
Last evening I went to a drumming at the home of some long-time friends. One of the other drummers was also a blast from my past. But, the delight of my heart was a young man […]
By Debra Basham, on February 25, 2023 Opening email this morning and reading Neale Donald Walsch’s words: “… in moments when things look bleak — especially in those moments — see only perfection, express only gratefulness, and then imagine only what manifestation of perfection you choose next.”
Cellular memory of our daughter Stacey’s move to Tennessee shortly after the birth of […]
By Debra Basham, on January 27, 2023 A friend wrote this week asking me, “So tell me your blog experience. How did you get into doing that? How many people follow you? Is it hard to get it up and going technically?”
It took a bit of thinking time to respond, and, still, I had to start with the easiest aspects first. […]
By Debra Basham, on January 22, 2023 “Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos.” ~ Adyashanti
Adyashanti’s words speak volumes to me as I am in the pondering process related to culling everything SCS-Matters in preparation for a new DebraBasham.com website. What to keep, what to save. What to repackage or […]
By Debra Basham, on December 10, 2021 We are enjoying wonderful weather here on Pine Island. Whether the weather is pleasant or unpleasant, John and I continue to navigate some challenging physical stuff.
John started with planting a mum early November in Michigan’s hard autumn ground. Stepping on the shovel with his right leg, he felt a pop in his low […]
By Debra Basham, on November 4, 2021 “Just because we are afraid doesn’t mean anything is wrong. Doesn’t mean a mistake is being made. Doesn’t even mean, necessarily, we’re in danger.”
~ Adyashanti, “Letting Go of Fear” from In the Face of the Infinite
It is 6:21 am and I am sitting with an ice pack on my left hip writing […]
By Debra Basham, on August 28, 2020 The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. ~ Paul Coehlo
As I was feeling befuddled by boredom, I happened upon a dharma talk by Kyoun Sokuzan. Sokuzan, a fully transmitted monk in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition, was speaking about meddling mind.
Adyashanti (born Steven Gray in 1962), an American spiritual […]
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