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Holy Happening at Aldi

By Debra Basham, on November 24, 2025

This winter John and I are in North Fort Myers. It is an unfamiliar home in a mostly-unfamiliar area. I have, on several occasions after having gone to the grocery store discovered when I was at home starting a meal, realized something I thought I had was something I had had at home in Michigan. […]

Blessed Coming In and Going Out

By Debra Basham, on November 19, 2025

Our niece sent us an unusual door mat as a “housewarming gift” for our seasonal home in Florida. It is a religious-themed retro sunburst that reads: “I Am Blessed Coming In” from one direction, and “I Am Blessed Going Out” from the other direction.

Shortly before the package arrived, I had told John […]

Prayers, Love, Hope: Essential

By Debra Basham, on November 6, 2025

One week ago today John Basham and I were on the road to Tennessee. Our drive was uneventful, along a route of perpetual autumn. I had been watching the weather forecasts and we were able to scoot southward as the rains were ending. All but about 15 minutes on Indy’s northside were driven on dry […]

Lily Yeh – Lily, Yeah!

By Debra Basham, on October 28, 2025

The 2:00 am WhatsApp “ping” from my Singaporean friend woke me. I was able to fall back asleep, but was then awakened by a dream. These disturbances resulted in my reading the thoughts for today that bless my inbox.

I followed my passion and was guided by the light inside of me. That light […]

Alone Together

By Debra Basham, on October 22, 2025

I found these words so beautiful….

And if its true we are alone, we are alone together, the way blades of grass are alone, but exist in a field.

~Rupert Spira Guided Meditation: Wherever You Turn, There is the Face of God

You might appreciate Karen Drucker’s singing The Face of God that […]

R.I.P.

By Debra Basham, on October 7, 2025

Your current comfort zone has served you, but it represents your behaviors and patterns from your past. ~ Daily Om

My sister and I just learned a childhood friend and neighbor took his own life. We had recently ended up living near one another again after all of these years. I instantly felt a profound […]

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 […]

Free

By Debra Basham, on September 15, 2025

“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 […]

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