New Hope Retreat

I am back in the tiny house. It was such a gift going on retreat. Being in Carol’s Cozy Cottage felt so much like Still Waters, where my soul has been nurtured for decades.

While on retreat, a dharma sister shared a powerful poem she saw in a post by a Chicago Cognitive Behavior […]

Pay Attention

Elizabeth Lesser wrote a New York Times bestselling book, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (Random House). That book has sold more than 300,000 copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Lesser says, “When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a […]

Be-Causal

Nature does not preserve species, nature preserves purpose. ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard

When Barbara was preparing to move to New York City in pursuit of her life’s calling as a futurist, she asked her 9 year-old son, Wade, if he was willing to go with her. In his wisdom and love, Wade responded, “Mom, you’re […]

Winds of Change

Ride the winds of change, unafraid.

~ Larry Ward

A friend mentioned Russell Boulding’s Earth Energy Healing work last Thursday and I finally got around to checking his website out. Russell says this of himself: “All of my life I have been inclined towards a left-brain rational approach to thought and action. I have a […]

See Every Event as an Opportunity

This morning I enjoyed listening to Linda Beushaushen Gunter’s sermon, “Life’s Story.” She told the first “version” of her life and then, reporting on the exact same history, another “version.” The first story focused through the lens of things being unfair, difficult, painful. The second told of the same events, but without all of the […]

Active Moment

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today

“Your job, once you understand that the river was never broken, is not to go on campaign to clean up the polluted river, but to help to teach those who live along the river that they are responsible for cleaning it up. The need is to understand clearly what […]

Lone Dove

At the end of our Zoom dominoes game last night I asked if anybody knew what was going on with the election results. John said, “Biden won.” I was shocked. Linda clarified that results have not yet been declared because of laws suits.

John’s first comment when I asked him if he was OK […]

Spiritual Victory

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Sitting in meditation recently I became the yin/yang symbol, flowing back and forth from a sense of form to knowing myself as nonform, experiencing a momentary flash of luminosity at the tipping point as the endless flow of black flowing […]

Common Sense: Common Good

Just when all the chips are down, the chins should be up.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

This morning I could feel a subtle pull to look at media, but everybody knows as soon as a winner of the Presidential election is resolved, that news will be widely known. So, why participate in any of […]

Condolences and Congratulations

Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need for this bright morning dawning for you.

~ Maya Angelou

Yesterday’s Yellow Brick Road contained the foundation for today’s: Today 49% of the people will be disappointed. That assumes 51% will be relieved or glad.

While elections have winners and losers, we do not have […]