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Everything is Possible

By Debra Basham, on January 24, 2023

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” ~ Thomas Merton

Last night after a rousing game of Hand and Foot, John […]

Happy Birthday Haiku

By Debra Basham, on January 22, 2023

“Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos.” ~ Adyashanti

Adyashanti’s words speak volumes to me as I am in the pondering process related to culling everything SCS-Matters in preparation for a new DebraBasham.com website. What to keep, what to save. What to repackage or […]

This Time Tomorrow

By Debra Basham, on November 22, 2021

For, although it is true that fear and despair can overwhelm us, hope cannot be purchased with the refusal to feel.

~Susan Griffin

“This time tomorrow” drifts through my head like lyrics to a song I am singing but have never heard. An internet search brought a song by that name by The Kinks.

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All Roads Lead to Somewhere

By Debra Basham, on October 1, 2020

The headline: The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into a bitter showdown …

It would be so easy for me to pass judgment about how unskillful bitter exchanges are were it not for the fact that I had just let myself get triggered by a friend I care […]

Poetry – Brandon Leake’s Got Talent!

By Debra Basham, on September 27, 2020

Anyone who lives art knows that psychoanalysis has no monopoly on the power to heal.

Art and poetry have always been altering our ways of sensing and feeling — that is to say, altering the human body.

~Norman O. Brown

Reality TV, like everything else in this human incarnation, has its ups and down, […]

Correction in Big Fires post

By Debra Basham, on September 23, 2020

OOPS…. A mistype of the most important kind.

Several individuals expressed feeling depressed with all that is going on right now. I mentioned how the uncertainty shifts us into the SYMPATHETIC nervous system – fight, flight, or freeze.

Some people are said to look for love in all the wrong places. Trying to […]

Big Fires

By Debra Basham, on September 23, 2020

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

~ John Burroughs

Several individuals expressed feeling depressed with all that is going on right now. I mentioned how the uncertainty shifts us into the sympathetic nervous system – fight, flight, or freeze.

Some people are said […]

New Frontiers

By Debra Basham, on September 16, 2020

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence.

But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.

~Br. David Steindl-Rast

Today, it is this beautiful planet we call home that calls us home to our hearts. We […]

Bless the Sea Snakes

By Debra Basham, on September 11, 2020

Joel has been having ongoing challenges with his gmail account. I reached out to Rebecca, our wonderful webmaster, and she is on it. When he wrote saying, “I think I must have been cursed by the gods of the internet. What did I ever do to them….” I wrote back:

“Well, bless the sea […]

Ambiguous Gain

By Debra Basham, on September 4, 2020

My sister and I are having a wonderful experience with the Magic Eye calendar for 2020. We meet via a video call on the first day of each month and we turn the page together. We love the sharing: looking; not seeing; relaxing; looking again; seeing. That is how the process works!

September was a […]

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