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Treasure this Day

By Debra Basham, on April 9, 2022

If what I say resonates with you, it’s because we are both branches of the same tree.

~ W. B. Yeats

I’m not a “follower” of astrology, but MANY years ago something occurred that led me to respect the wisdom there.

Decades ago now, driving home on a snowy day, the roads were glare […]

Please Help Me Get Out of the Hospital

By Debra Basham, on March 30, 2022

Buddhist teachings point to the most elemental cause behind our suffering — forgetting who we are. We forget our belonging to one another and to our larger body of earth. We forget our belonging to the boundless, loving awareness which is our shared essence. Instead, we live in a trance of egoic separation, with habits […]

Learn, Grow, and Change

By Debra Basham, on March 25, 2022

One of the most extraordinary aspects of our humanity is our capacity to learn, grow, and change.

~ Sheryl Chard (Gratefulness.org)

One week ago today I got a call from the son of my long-time business partner, Joel Bowman, asking who in Kalamazoo could take his dad to the ER.

Of course, I am […]

Getting Ready

By Debra Basham, on March 23, 2022

Meditation is not only permissible in the face of great suffering; it is a moral obligation. ~ Right Action in the Face of Suffering, by Dan Zigmond, March 15, 2022 in The Lion’s Roar

Often I use the Yellow Brick Road as a platform to share what is happening. Today I am simply going to […]

The Practice of Life

By Debra Basham, on March 9, 2022

Last evening’s Group 2 was only five of us out of thirteen. I am not sure what qualifies as a quorum, but I am sure all thirteen of us were actively involved in the practice of LIFE.

Our meeting times were set at the first of the year but the evening before our meeting […]

Holy Holons

By Debra Basham, on February 27, 2022

On Friday I could feel that my blood pressure was high. I began to affirm: I choose to release this pattern within me that has contributed to this situation.

Boom!

I am 12 years old again — August 1962 — in the auto accident with my dad. I am reliving all the terror […]

Rough Edges

By Debra Basham, on February 14, 2022

February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.

A few days ago (asking if we are to pursue having Dr. Deutsch be John’s cardiologist) I drew The Lovers Osho Zen Tarot: It is time to […]

What Comes Next?

By Debra Basham, on February 2, 2022

Certain times of life and/or experiences of life seem AMPLIFIED.

In Hard Pivot: Embrace Change. Find Purpose. Show Up Fully. Apolo Ohno says every person will have an experience that changes their life forever.

This has certainly been the case with John’s surprise open-heart surgery.

In Hard Pivot, Ohno suggests we make […]

Whether Or Not It Is Clear To You

By Debra Basham, on January 24, 2022

Today is Monday, January 24, 2022. I wrote in my journal:

Dear Holy Spirit,

Three weeks ago today, on January 3, 2022, John had CABAG (open-heart, quadruple by-pass surgery).

That feels otherworldly.

We continue to be gobsmacked by the OBVIOUS perfection of the unfolding of all of this.

For example, his first morning […]

Turn Down That Alarm

By Debra Basham, on January 21, 2022

I was tagged in a Facebook post. Words I had shared had been carried around and then laminated, and framed.

The words were: KNOW WHAT YOU FEAR. AND WHAT YOU DESIRE. SURRENDER THAT TO THE HIGHEST GOOD. LET GO OF OUTCOME.

I soooooo needed to hear those words myself right now.

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