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I Wish to Give My Share

By Debra Basham, on October 8, 2023

Today’s “Word for the Day” from Gratefulness.org is by renowned poet and author, David Whyte: Being unappreciative might mean we are simply not paying attention.

I have shared previously that we have been on an accelerated path with my nephew. He has now signed a lease, paid his first month’s rent, and this David and […]

Make the Chili

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 […]

An Experience of Grace

By Debra Basham, on September 12, 2023

Wowser, it has been a wonder-filled day. Six women were present for deep sharing following the 6:30 a.m. meditation. Three of those women I have known previously, two are new friends.

Right afterwards I scored a Royal Flush and earned a whopping 5,000 points on the poker machine in our guest bath. In the […]

The Same Blue Supermoon Shines in Every Back Yard

By Debra Basham, on September 1, 2023

The moon again provides a backdrop for the Yellow Brick Road (see my previous post, Waning Gibbous Moon).

A friend lives in Colorado where the skies are almost always clear. Each month he takes a photo of the full moon and sends it to me. (If you are not able to see the photo below, […]

Waning Gibbous Moon

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 […]

Consecrate This

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 […]

Our Real Power

By Debra Basham, on August 4, 2023

We cannot forget that our real power is not necessarily to change the world, but to make a world of change to the people we encounter every day. ~ Cory Booker

Last Thursday morning while I was out on a bike ride I got a call from a friend here in the park, “I have […]

Radical Noticing

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 […]

A Beautiful World Within

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 […]

Karma and Forgiveness

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 […]

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