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Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ~ The Dalai Lama I am suddenly feeling quite weary. My eyes are burning and I can barely stay awake. It is almost 11:00 pm, but I don’t think this is physical tired. Something is pulling […] This morning I was catching up doing “Day One” of Pompe Strater-Vidal’s 11-Day Meditation Challenge on the 4 aspects of Immeasurable Mind, Loving Kindness, Compassion, Equanimity and Joy, that started yesterday. The message on loving-kindness practice was about how you have to begin by loving and being kind to yourself. I was directed to identify […] 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 […] “Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.” — Huston Smith In 1958, Huston Smith wrote “The Religions of Man”, which has been a standard textbook in college-level comparative religion classes for half a century. In 1991, it was revised and expanded and given the […] Sometimes I notice myself deciding I am where I want to be. Sometimes where I am to be is very clear. My poetry group meets in Florida. When I am in Michigan, we FaceTime me in for the gathering. This week, afterwards they all went out for dinner. I wasn’t there, or was I… […] A local restaurant offers all-you-care to-eat fish dinners on Friday evening. We were meeting my sister and brother-in-love early and we arrived first, way before the place got busy. “I love your necklace,” our waitress placing menus on our table. “What can I get you to drink?” Slipping the charger off off my neck, […] The future won’t always be fair. But we can try. We can care. We can choose to connect. It can be better if we let it. ~ Seth Godin Many of my days are spent bearing witness to the clarity secure within our souls as our personalities fling destructive BS into our lives. One recent […] Putting over 40 years of journals into the bottom cupboard of the new library closet we had installed this winter I was suddenly overwhelmed by the sacredness of reflection. It has been too long since I wrote in my paper journal. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of preparations, travel, arrival, clearing the […] Preparations are underway to head to Smyrna tomorrow. We never say or think we are leaving Pine Island after enjoying “the season” here—we are going to see the grandkids! Recently my brother-in-law experienced the death of the woman he had cared for the past five years. He was committed to her. They married in […] |
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