The Theme of Home

I was on retreat and up quite early one morning and I wanted to share so I let myself enjoy the bliss of fingers on the keyboard. I am now home and sending this.

Stacey and John drove out with me on Friday evening so they could see where I would be for the week. […]

Lasting Effects of the Pandemic

WORD FOR THE DAY from Gratefulness.org

The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility.

We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.

~ Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

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Motherless Child

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 […]

Many Happy Returns

“Whether we have happiness or not depends on the seeds in our consciousness. If our seeds of compassion, understanding, and love are strong, those qualities will be able to manifest in us. If the seeds of anger, hostility and sadness in us are strong, then we will experience much suffering. To understand someone, we […]

Two Wings of Mindfulness

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 […]

Hearing, Sitting, Touching, Breathing

For those who believe, no words are necessary. For those who do not believe, no words are possible.

~Attributed to Saint Ignatius in Think of an Elephant : Combining Science and Spirituality for a Better Life (2007) by Paul Bailey, but earlier attributed to Franz Werfel, Philippine Studies (1953) by Ateneo de Manila, p. […]

Your Place in the Family of Things

A few days ago, the mold saga continued as late in the evening our friend ripped up carpet preparing for solid flooring installation in the manufactured home she bought here in our park and found this:

(see Lessons from the Mold)

She was having a very difficult time navigating all of the uncertainty. […]

Carpe Diem!

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting. ~ Robert Herrick

My fingers have been missing in […]

“If” In Life

IF IN LIFE

There will always be a ‘lie’ in believe, An ‘over’ in lover, An ‘end’ in friend, An ‘us’ in trust, And an ‘if’ in life. —author’s name not provided

The Boehner aphorism, “If ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas,” was coined by the Dallas Cowboys […]