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What Love Can Do

By Debra Basham, on November 7, 2019

I could begin this article with an update on my SCS-Matters domain still being unavailable here on my home WiFi router, or that our underbelly of our mobile home is not yet insulated or ‘closed up’ as they call it and there is snow on the ground this morning, but I will instead […]

Grief and Relief: RIP Aunt Sharon

By Debra Basham, on November 2, 2019

Tender emotions here…. Some of the emotions are frustration. I have spent the past two weeks without resolution to my WiFi/Domain not speaking to one another. Twenty three hours on hold with Comcast, Comcast, Comcast, and Bluehost.

Monday evening, Aunt Sharon Basham passed. I met with her family on Thursday evening, went to visitation […]

Bare Perception

By Debra Basham, on October 28, 2019

At the time of this writing, I am still holding space for resolution with the issue of not having access to the SCS-Matters.com domain using my Comcast WiFi at home that began 10 days ago. This morning I was successful logging in using the unsecure Xfinity WiFi hotspot, and I am on my laptop at […]

Holy Hissy-fits

By Debra Basham, on October 23, 2019

Holy hissy-fits, Batman, have I been navigating the sacred darkness this week!

Last Friday morning I realized I was not able to log onto the SCS website. I @$$sumed our website was just down for some reason so I sent a text message to Joel and to our webmaster, Rebecca. Rebecca responded that she […]

NOT Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

By Debra Basham, on August 21, 2019

It is interesting where sayings come from that sit in our memory banks and shape our experiences without our noticing.

One such saying comes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries when two-story apartment houses sprung up during the manufacturing boom. Cheaply built, with identical floor plans on the first and second floor, […]

Saddest of Days

By Debra Basham, on April 4, 2019

This past winter has been the f-a-s-t-e-s-t in my memory. We enjoyed visitors beginning the last week of January, and continuing right up until the week before we headed north.

Some groaned when I shared that, speaking of how difficult they found it to maintain balance with guests. I would clarify how fortunate I […]

Inter-Are

By Debra Basham, on March 29, 2019

I have been wondering about the distinction between self care and nurture (kindness and wisdom) and “distraction.” Might we be doing wholesome actions such as exercise or journal writing, or playing music, without being skillful?

Additionally, I wrote to Barbara Brodsky, Founding Teacher of Deep Spring Meditation Center, asking about all of this. “We are […]

The Aftermath

By Debra Basham, on March 22, 2019

You see, I have this weird, but in my experience, validated faith that if I surrender myself to my own words, the ones that came without too much cogitation or premeditation, they will lead me to a place I didn’t know I’d be visiting; they will show me 1) What I didn’t know was on […]

Processing

By Debra Basham, on March 17, 2019

Our granddaughter spent this past week with us. It has been six years since she had done that, and it was quite a week! As her mom said, “You cannot spend a week with Gammie without processing!”

Our first processing was my bout with an intestinal bug the day she arrived.

The second processing […]

The Substance of All Things

By Debra Basham, on March 6, 2019

Art is remembrance. It is love. It is like a sword that distinguishes between appearance and reality. ~ Rupert Spira

I have been wondering just what it is that allows some people to find joy or see beauty or create art where it might have been missed by another.

Musing is jogged by such mundane […]

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