A Holy/Wholly Holistic Alliance Reunion

By Debra Basham, on February 13, 2023

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

~ Carl Jung

It’s been said that no one comes into our lives by accident. It might also be said that no experience we have is by accident either. The conditions of our lives […]

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Out of Control

By Debra Basham, on March 13, 2020

Hearing Barbara Brodsky speak candidly about her husband, Hal, being so very vulnerable in the nursing home. What if the facility goes on lockdown and he can’t have the therapy so desperately needed. She wonders if she should bring him home. “I want to know. I don’t know. Does anybody know?”

Barbara hears Aaron, […]

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Ambiguous Loss

By Debra Basham, on April 28, 2019

Last week was a week with loss. Good Friday, the husband of a client/friend/colleague passed. Holy Saturday, the father of a business acquaintance passed. Easter Sunday, a loyal member of Saint Joseph Buddhist Sangha passed. A Buddhist teacher invited me to use the 49 day ceremony.

49 Day Ceremony

When someone passes away, in […]

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Milarepa’s Muses

By Debra Basham, on July 17, 2018

I am in a poetry writing group. We are working our way through The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop by Diane Lockward. Craft Tip #12 is about the uses of myth. “Milarepa’s Muses” is based on The Non-Duality of Coming to Know the Light Within the Darkness; Age of Kali , a talk given […]

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It is Time!

By Debra Basham, on June 22, 2018

“When you can bring your own energy forth to truly hear others in a compassionate way and can create compassionate dialogue, then you give them a model to bring forth to others who have a more opposite view.

It is this steady expansion of the loving heart we all share that is the greatest […]

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