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Agitation and Imagination

By Debra Basham, on June 26, 2024

Agitation is interesting.

Instead of trying to make it go away, allow it to be fully present, so that you can watch and learn its nature clearly.

~ The DailyTejaniya

It is difficult to recall how long ago now I saw so clearly the futility of speaking about a situation that is […]

Grow Through What You Go Through

By Debra Basham, on December 23, 2023

Light rain was tap dancing on the metal roof of the lanai as I sat in the darkness waiting for the sun to make its debut thinking about a dear friend of mine whose brother-in-love is going to be having lung cancer surgery soon. She has been a champion of ours for decades, having thrived […]

Good Can Come From This

By Debra Basham, on October 27, 2022

This post was started on October 17, 2022. Today is now ten days later. I cannot explain fully what derailed my completing the entry, but, say only, a lot has changed during this interim. The post began with this:

On Sunday, October 16, this loving blessing came through Barbara Brodsky:

The Mother to Debra […]

A Clean Slate

By Debra Basham, on October 13, 2022

On Tuesday night in class the teacher told us, “Karma is never a punishment; there is always a desire to learn.” I was so drawn to the words and to the implication of that truth. A subtle curiosity dawned as to from where the idea of a punishing supreme being came.

When love […]

Invite to Arise and Allow to Dissolve

By Debra Basham, on October 2, 2022

The days feel a bit otherworldly since hurricane Ian paid a visit to our seasonal paradise in St. James City on Pine Island, Florida. Devastation is the best descriptor. The island has been deemed “uninhabitable” for the unforeseeable future with no power, water, sewer, or emergency services.

The sense of loss comes in concentric […]

Embrace Your Radiance and Power

By Debra Basham, on September 19, 2022

Sometimes it takes hindsight to see most clearly how to move forward.

This morning I came across a Beyond Mastery Newsletter post from ten years ago. The title of that post is “You’re Pushin’ Too Hard.” Here it is:

I may have been affected by a week of flu, but these words to the […]

Before and After

By Debra Basham, on September 5, 2022

Everything that is good in the world comes from love, land, and labor.

~ Van Jones

My previous Yellow Brick Road posted on August 14. Today is Labor Day, September 5, 2022. This may be the longest time between posts EVER. Or perhaps it isn’t, but it has been (for sure) quite some time.

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A Cloudy Day

By Debra Basham, on August 14, 2022

The past few days have unfolded very differently from my plans. I had expected to share fish-fry with Linda and Larry and Linda and Fred and play Hand-and-Foot on Friday evening, and to make vegetable beef soup with my mother’s cornbread for dinner on Saturday with Janis and Larry. I planned a visit with Delcy […]

Things Said and Unsaid

By Debra Basham, on August 10, 2022

How was it that her whole life could be distilled down to that simple truth? Words mattered. Her life had been defined by things said and unsaid….

Winter Garden: A Novel by Kristin Hannah

Yesterday morning on my bike ride I had one of those mundane moments that reveal such eternal truth it almost takes […]

Dissent with Love

By Debra Basham, on August 3, 2022

WORD FOR THE DAY

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

~ James Baldwin (Gratefulness.org)

Group 2 sharing last evening was active with exploring the question of the value of being ordained (in Buddhism). This was not so much an intellectual discussion, but a […]

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