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Being of Genuine Service

By Debra Basham, on December 3, 2021

Tuesday evening while still in the post-overnight-drive malaise, I tried to log on as Zoom host for our Dharma Path class. It said “username / password incorrect” so I tried again. Same thing. Then the foggy thinking took over and I questioned if the link was set up on one of the other accounts. I […]

Disappearance of Dogma

By Debra Basham, on August 12, 2021

If the definition of “dogma” is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true then I wonder what we call the state of not seeing anything as incontrovertibly true? Perhaps that is the disappearance of dogma….

I have been listening to Kelvin Chin, who was a test subject in […]

The True Meaning of Home

By Debra Basham, on August 5, 2021

The other evening we were talking about our favorite childhood book/s. Mine was The Boxcar Children. It is a story about four orphaned siblings who must find a way to fend for themselves or risk being separated.The children have a grandfather they have never met, but they are afraid he is mean because he did […]

Lasting Effects of the Pandemic

By Debra Basham, on June 26, 2021

WORD FOR THE DAY from Gratefulness.org

The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility.

We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.

~ Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

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The Collective

By Debra Basham, on May 30, 2021

When I picked up the spoon off the napkin to stir my morning tea, a huge ant fell out onto the kitchen counter. I carefully picked it up with the napkin, and carried it out onto the porch.

Looking up “ant as animal totem” I was surprised to see a reference to MOLD:

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Specimen of Transformation

By Debra Basham, on April 27, 2021

I woke up this morning thinking about a beautiful woman, who happens to be the daughter of a dear friend of mine. A remarkable feat of love — her going this past weekend to visit her biological father on his deathbed to assure him of forgiveness for his abuse.

That same woman is undergoing […]

Hand-in-Hand

By Debra Basham, on April 13, 2021

With all that takes place in our lives, it can sometimes be easy to overlook the fact that we’re part of something greater than ourselves — a collective consciousness, the Universe, a greater cause.

~ Daily Om

The March 2021 skies over Pine Island, near Ft. Myers, in Southwest Florida (winter home of this […]

In My Life

By Debra Basham, on March 30, 2021

You CAN attend to these things — to the blizzard, to the hurricane, to the forest fire, to the automobile accident, to the volcanic eruption, to the political hate-throwing — with an open heart. You can respond to these with a consciousness that refuses to be drawn in with fear, but instead comes forth […]

Muy agradecida. Muy agradecido.

By Debra Basham, on March 22, 2021

How can I wish for myself what I do not wish for everybody, including those I think of as my worst enemies?

~ Aaron

Another drive across the state of Florida, this time for our second vaccine, and this time we know where we are going. We are going to an ALL Spanish-speaking pharmacy near […]

DO What YOU Can

By Debra Basham, on February 28, 2021

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

Tapping with Scarlett Lewis of The Forgiveness Project during the World Tapping Summit, my heart opened deeply related to […]

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