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We Need More of That

By Debra Basham, on September 22, 2025

While the news often features the worst of humanity, there are a billion acts of human kindness every hour of every day! Take another breath and sense this truth. ~ Jack Kornfield

Saturday morning when John got up he told me there was blood on his pillowcase and sheets. He assumed the blood came from […]

“There is no greater justice than death. There is no greater justice than the dissolution of everything we have known…. this emptiness…. a moral field in which truth catches up with our self deceptions. It’s not punishment that we are waiting for but we are waiting for the wisdom of the cosmos.”

~The Five […]

Say Only – A Pressure Washer

By Debra Basham, on August 24, 2025

Well, the Best Buy / Comcast / Samsung saga has continued. Friday, August 22, 2025, at 8:30 am a Samsung repair person confirmed his arrival between 10 and 12 by text message. I turned the TV on. At 11:49 it began flickering…. at 12:05 I received a text message saying he would arrive in 25 […]

Today I Will Choose Joy

By Debra Basham, on August 16, 2025

Regrets are like eating rat poison expecting the rats to die. Rather than living with regrets, we can choose to savor every opportunity to love. This is how my yesterday felt (feels).

When my niece was in 8th grade she went to live with her dad and step-mother. She will be 52 on her […]

A New Look at Service

By Debra Basham, on August 5, 2025

Twice in the past several days I have have been invited to look at the habit energy of a person doing or not doing something in opposition to one’s own desire out of obligation or not wanting to offend, disappoint, or hurt another. I decided to put this situation to question using AI.

Take […]

Xfinity

By Debra Basham, on July 11, 2025

Where is the beginning of a ring? What is the beginning of a climate with four seasons? Which stage of a butterfly is the beginning or the end? In starting this blog post, I know not these answers.

“The Game of Life” is a Sacred Story posted on 4 July 2025:

He took The […]

Wholesome and Wonder-full

By Debra Basham, on June 22, 2025

In meditation, the aim is to know the whole experience: the thoughts, feelings, and sensations surrounding an emotion, and the behavior of the mind — especially whether its motivation is whole- some or unwholesome.

~ The Daily Tejaniya

This recognition of wholesome or unwholesome motivation is a game changer. In the same way that […]

A Real No-Brainer

By Debra Basham, on June 20, 2025

John and I are in Tennessee at Stacey’s. We drove down yesterday. While he was napping, I logged onto John’s MyChart to check for the last of the test results from his annual exam with his primary the day before. His thyroid is off again. His medication will be adjusted. But the results from the […]

Say “I Do”- Marriage as Sacrament

By Debra Basham, on June 1, 2025

I may have previously written about this, but I am intentionally not searching, because whether or not I have previously written about it, today I need to write about it again. One of the women who is part of our Glen Aire Wednesday evening jam was singing in the choir and we were invited to […]

My Cup Runneth Over

By Debra Basham, on May 30, 2025

The quote “Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof” by Richard Bach is a common saying that suggests true family bonds are not always defined by blood or persons living under the same roof, according to Goodreads and Tumblr. It emphasizes that family can be found in the connections […]

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