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Anxious Feelings – Power of Presence

By Debra Basham, on May 12, 2024

I was awake a few times during the night. My friend is in the hospital. She just got home from Florida on Tuesday about dinner time and when I took “Welcome Home” cookies to her about noon on Wednesday, it was obvious she was not in tip-top-shape. This friend had MAJOR back surgery while in […]

From All Sides

By Debra Basham, on May 2, 2024

I have been working with a habitual habit energy. I’ve been at that place in the process where I could see clearly it was habit energy but I was not yet able to see what was driving it. You cannot see it until you can see it, and you cannot release it until you can […]

Hair Experiences

By Debra Basham, on April 17, 2024

I almost did not go for an out-of-doors bike ride today because of a threat of rain and a fairly stiff wind, but the newborn leaves making their debut on the trees outside my window moved me. About 7 miles in, and very near home, the three walkers looked a rather odd trio from behind, […]

The Guest House

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 […]

Trust Your Own Story

By Debra Basham, on February 26, 2024

Early Saturday morning I woke up dreaming. I knew the symbols were significant so by the light of the digital watch I keep on the nightstand I wrote in my journal:

Dream

Am sliding head-first down a piece of card stock to show a friend she can “trust your own story/writing….”

My scribbled note […]

I Am Made of You

By Debra Basham, on February 22, 2024

It is this disinterested but completely allowing contemplation of the body in the world that the body loses its ‘me-ness’ and the world loses its ‘not-me-ness.’ In this way bodily sensations no longer cry out ‘I am separate, I am exclusively you” and perceptions of the world no longer cry out, ‘I am separate, […]

Snow Bird Sees Rare Bird

By Debra Basham, on February 12, 2024

It has possibly been the longest ever period between posts for the Yellow Brick Road…. and I cannot say what has kept my fingers off the keyboard, but this Snow Bird before doing anything else this morning has to write about having seen a rare bird.

The significance of this bird began many years […]

It’s So Simple, Isn’t It?

By Debra Basham, on January 16, 2024

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~ Will Durant

From the book In God’s Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery: “The real root of our struggle to speak well of others is the pain we suffer because of our low self-esteem, and diminishing another person’s worth, unfortunately, gives […]

Trust the Magic of Beginnings

By Debra Basham, on January 1, 2024

And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. ~ Meister Eckhart

Today is the first day of 2024.

Yesterday afternoon I went into a different area on my bike ride. I was only lost between 8.88 miles and 12.22 miles….

Suddenly I knew I had gotten […]

Grow Through What You Go Through

By Debra Basham, on December 23, 2023

Light rain was tap dancing on the metal roof of the lanai as I sat in the darkness waiting for the sun to make its debut thinking about a dear friend of mine whose brother-in-love is going to be having lung cancer surgery soon. She has been a champion of ours for decades, having thrived […]

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