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Our Window of Tolerance

By Debra Basham, on October 24, 2020

“Resilience is not something we have or we don’t have. It is something that we can train in our minds and bodies.” ~ Liz Stanley

I’ve made a promise to myself to post a blog each day until after the Presidential election. Putting my fingers on the keyboard grounds me. I am choosing to widen […]

Pondering Becoming a Pundit

By Debra Basham, on October 23, 2020

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” ~ Christopher Robin

A precious friend told me about 45 years ago that I should be a political pundit. According to Wikipedia, a pundit is a person who offers to mass media their opinion or commentary on a particular subject area […]

On the Shark’s Terms

By Debra Basham, on October 18, 2020

Like my parents taught me, ‘There are no monsters in the sea, only the ones we make up in our heads.’ ~ Christina Zenato

A friend shared an amazing video of a woman swimming with sharks. But this woman is not just “swimming” with the sharks. Christina Zenato, a professional diver, is removing fish […]

Mercury Retrograde! October 14 – November 3

By Debra Basham, on October 14, 2020

Belief can be overrated. If one did not believe in gravity, would gravity still have an effect? Of course, it would. It is likely that astrological influences are having an effect on us in much the same way.

Mercury went retrograde on October 14, where it will stay through November 3.

Tuesday, November […]

Let it Shine!

By Debra Basham, on October 10, 2020

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of […]

All Roads Lead to Somewhere

By Debra Basham, on October 1, 2020

The headline: The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into a bitter showdown …

It would be so easy for me to pass judgment about how unskillful bitter exchanges are were it not for the fact that I had just let myself get triggered by a friend I care […]

Poetry – Brandon Leake’s Got Talent!

By Debra Basham, on September 27, 2020

Anyone who lives art knows that psychoanalysis has no monopoly on the power to heal.

Art and poetry have always been altering our ways of sensing and feeling — that is to say, altering the human body.

~Norman O. Brown

Reality TV, like everything else in this human incarnation, has its ups and down, […]

Correction in Big Fires post

By Debra Basham, on September 23, 2020

OOPS…. A mistype of the most important kind.

Several individuals expressed feeling depressed with all that is going on right now. I mentioned how the uncertainty shifts us into the SYMPATHETIC nervous system – fight, flight, or freeze.

Some people are said to look for love in all the wrong places. Trying to […]

Big Fires

By Debra Basham, on September 23, 2020

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

~ John Burroughs

Several individuals expressed feeling depressed with all that is going on right now. I mentioned how the uncertainty shifts us into the sympathetic nervous system – fight, flight, or freeze.

Some people are said […]

New Frontiers

By Debra Basham, on September 16, 2020

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence.

But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.

~Br. David Steindl-Rast

Today, it is this beautiful planet we call home that calls us home to our hearts. We […]

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