Posted March 22, 2020 in Sacred Stories

N-95

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A text came from a Michigan friend, also wintering in Florida. Everyone is navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.

“BTW – Any connections locally for finding a mask for an ailing friend-of-a-friend who needs to fly home next week?”

She asked her husband if he had seen a mask in the shed […]

Posted March 21, 2020 in Sacred Stories

Flowers 50% Off

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This “Sacred Story” is shared with permission from Facebook:

Yesterday upon entering the grocery store, I was left speechless as my eyes took in the barren shelves of produce. Not one tomato, not one onion, not one…a lot of things! Granted, my first choice was to retreat to a place of […]

Posted March 21, 2020 in Sacred Stories

Birthday Photos

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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

The Carriage House

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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

Slow-Lee

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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

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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

How the $%^#

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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

Surprise!

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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

Heraclitis

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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

49 Days

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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 […]