Posted March 21, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
The daughter of her mom’s friend sent some old photos. In one of the photos were her mom, her dad, and her sister, along with the woman who sent the photos and that woman’s brother. The second photo was a more recent photo of her mom’s friend, who had transitioned April […]
Posted March 20, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
She had collected match books for aeons. Some of them she does not remember where they came from, and most of them she actually cares nothing about at all any more. She will use them to light a candle every once in a while. She keeps some of them in a […]
Posted March 19, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
She had been very recently widowed, now navigating her life without her husband of many decades. Responsibilities which had been shared by two, now sat on her shoulders, including tending to a new will.
And now she was really feeling ALONE with all of her normal outside activities cancelled to help […]
Posted March 19, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
Two days earlier he had awoken at 5:55 am.
Notification of a message from a dear friend (in an earlier time zone) came through to his phone this morning at 5:55 am.
His friend’s message said: We are being asked to love the virus (a sentient being) and say to […]
Posted March 11, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
It had been seven weeks since her husband’s passing.
As she settled onto her mat to teach the yoga class she heard herself speaking truthfully about how challenging it was becoming to have people keep asking her, “How are you doing?”
She immediately felt remorse, hoping not to seem ungrateful […]
Posted March 11, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
He traveled to spend the holiday and meet the family of the woman he had started dating. He knew a good friend of his brother had married a woman from that town.
Driving around, he saw the restaurant where that couple had met and where the guy had proposed to […]
Posted March 11, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
During a two-day continuing education training, a couple of times the instructor mentioned Heraclitis, a philosopher born in the Persian empire.
A couple of days later, about three pages into the book he bought to read while waiting for his flight to Florida to visit his grandparents, he saw the […]
Posted March 7, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
Chanting GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA from the heart sutra for 49 days to-the-day of transition is a significant act of love in the Buddhist tradition. PARASAMGATE means completely gone to the further shore. The prefix SAM is intensive in meaning: completely, thoroughly, altogether.
She had been chanting for the […]
Posted March 5, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
She had traveled a distance, while wintering in Florida, to be evaluated for an intervention for relief from chronic back pain.
She sent her friend an update via text message: “We made an appointment for the treatment tomorrow! And it just happens that Stacey and Courtney helped us out with […]
Posted March 3, 2020 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
Her husband had recently transitioned. The friend she was talking to on the phone asked if she had noticed communications from him. Initially she said she had not noticed anything, then she remembered something that might be!
“Last week when I was down with the flu, I was lying on the […]
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