By Debra Basham, on October 27, 2022 This post was started on October 17, 2022. Today is now ten days later. I cannot explain fully what derailed my completing the entry, but, say only, a lot has changed during this interim. The post began with this:
On Sunday, October 16, this loving blessing came through Barbara Brodsky:
The Mother to Debra […]
By Debra Basham, on September 19, 2022 Sometimes it takes hindsight to see most clearly how to move forward.
This morning I came across a Beyond Mastery Newsletter post from ten years ago. The title of that post is “You’re Pushin’ Too Hard.” Here it is:
I may have been affected by a week of flu, but these words to the […]
By Debra Basham, on July 11, 2022 If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. ~ African proverb
Several weeks ago I saw a coyote pup in the field adjacent to Pilgrim Congregational UCC Church, directly across from our park. I mentioned it in a previous post titled: Coyote Pup and Purposeful Purse Project. […]
By Debra Basham, on June 13, 2022 Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you grow up.
~ Pablo Picasso
Yesterday was very busy. I did the grocery shopping and had everything put away before John got up. I worked right up to the Sunday morning meditation at 11:00 and was back online at 1:30 […]
By Debra Basham, on June 9, 2022 We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.
~ Louise Eldrich
We looked at […]
By Debra Basham, on May 30, 2022 Yesterday morning I received a text message from Joel, simply, “Not well.”
This was the first news from him since Thursday morning, May 19, when a staff member came in and swabbed his nose, testing him for Covid while we were on FaceTime. After that he did not answer text messages, or return calls. […]
By Debra Basham, on May 4, 2022 In The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-kindness, Pema Chödrön qutoes Joseph Campbell, writing, “It has been said, quite accurately that the psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.” One might wonder what it is that the mystic sees/hears/knows/experiences which leads to the more pleasant conclusion.
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By Debra Basham, on March 9, 2022 Last evening’s Group 2 was only five of us out of thirteen. I am not sure what qualifies as a quorum, but I am sure all thirteen of us were actively involved in the practice of LIFE.
Our meeting times were set at the first of the year but the evening before our meeting […]
By Debra Basham, on January 21, 2022 I was tagged in a Facebook post. Words I had shared had been carried around and then laminated, and framed.
The words were: KNOW WHAT YOU FEAR. AND WHAT YOU DESIRE. SURRENDER THAT TO THE HIGHEST GOOD. LET GO OF OUTCOME.
I soooooo needed to hear those words myself right now.
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By Debra Basham, on December 27, 2021 The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances. ~Liane Cordes
On Christmas Eve I joined a Zoom Interfaith gathering. Jeshua’s message,”You Are the Light That Comes to Transform the Earth,” channeled by Barbara Brodsky, was powerful. Here are a few excerpts:
People have sometimes […]
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