By Debra Basham, on March 21, 2024 Today is March 21 and I have absolutely no “excuse” for not having posted on Yellow Brick Road since February 26. Yes, we have had house guests off and on for the past six weeks. Yes, I have been riding up to 20 miles per day on my bike this year rather than the normal […]
By Debra Basham, on November 10, 2023 Friends accept that friends will feel out loud when they are ready. ~ She Recovers Every Day: Meditations for Women
Late yesterday afternoon I had a serendipitous treasure visiting with my dear friend, Jane Foster. Jane is navigating radiation therapy. The linear accelerator was being repaired so she had the day off from her […]
By Debra Basham, on November 4, 2023 Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. ~ Simone Weil
This morning I did laundry rather than go to the community room to ride the stationary bike because I am currently starting a […]
By Debra Basham, on September 27, 2023 I shared this story at St. John UCC a few days ago:
Make The Chili
A good friend of mine unexpectedly lost his wife. A couple months later we were golfing together, chatting about nothing. He asked what my dinner plans were and I told him wifey wanted my homemade chili and cornbread, but I […]
By Debra Basham, on August 10, 2023 Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
~ Pema Chödrön
Posted on Facebook by a Reunion Living Ministry colleague:
“To bless whatever there is, and for no other reason but simply because it is, that is what we are made for as human beings.”
~ David Steindal-Rast
I bless the heat and […]
By Debra Basham, on July 12, 2023 How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing. Looking for awe in all of life.
~ Lucy Jones posted on Gratefulness.org July 12, 2023
Yesterday riding my bike I was inundated by awareness of the propensity to criticism. John’s clothes, the way someone says something, the decadent use of disposable bottles […]
By Debra Basham, on June 12, 2023 We crave that deep place within that cannot be touched by the ups and downs of life, but rather just IS – connected and whole.
~ Katie Rubinstein
For well over twenty years I have been working with a Karmic stream from a lucid past life. I will tell it like a fictional story so […]
By Debra Basham, on May 24, 2023 “…we might almost say silence is the tribute we pay to holiness; we slip off words when we enter a sacred space, just as we slip off shoes. A ‘moment of silence’ is the highest honor we can pay someone; it is the point at which the mind stops and something else takes over (words […]
By Debra Basham, on March 31, 2023 When you cease to relate to the darkness as something separate or other than the light, this invites the darkness into its sacred expression. In its highest expression it comes as teacher — perhaps not pleasant, but as teacher. Pain, fear, grief — not separate from the light. ~ Aaron
On Tuesday evening at the […]
By Debra Basham, on November 5, 2022 The 8-day silent meditation retreat will take more than one Yellow Brick Road to share with readers. Day One included 22-month old, Jackson, our great grandson, being air-lifted from the hospital in Chattanooga to Vanderbilt after he had a seizure in the parking garage following discharge.
Day Eight is complete with nurse Linda diagnosing […]
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