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Winter Storm and Sunny Trees Belies Intention 0

Words

Mix and shuffle and carefully sew each piece together to create a colorful tapestry or an alien landscape or just a long winter’s tale to be told around the fire as we sip warm...

Celebrations! 1

Celebrations

Who isn’t weary and wary by now of impending hardships and struggles lurking around every corner waiting to bite you on the ass? Who doesn’t want a reason to cast aside concerns and find...

Making ourselves sick 0

Making Ourselves Sick

Holding onto situations and stories that we tell ourselves and others to highlight how wronged we’ve been is a good way to ensure that we make ourselves sick. Recognizing wrongs and pointing them out...

Powerfully Graceful 0

Powerfully Graceful

Close your eyes and envision an animal, a person, a machine that has mastered and woven both the metal of power and the softness of grace together in a single mantle . What comes...

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Compassion without Comparison

A crooked backed man with a dirty face and ragged clothes smiles and steps aside to allow the younger man to pass through the opened door ahead of him.  He heads into the cool...

Strength and resilience 0

Strength and Resilience

First impressions may not be accurate but they are undoubtedly important.  Recently I asked a person quite close to me to consider one impression he initially had of me but which changed or was...

Breathe and return to presence 0

Returning Presence

The knife that is wedged between my shoulder blades deepens as  I struggle to shake loose from the grip of strong arms holding me. Then, merely by opening my eyes and untangling  from the...

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Intentions

What do you suppose all of those good intentions that pave the road to hell really look like?  Perhaps some of your intentions are in that stretch of highway. Isn’t that your intention there...

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Uncertainty

It is a good time to take stock in what is really meaningful in these times of uncertainty.  There is a bizarre suspension on “normalcy” today that is allowing us to take an inventory...

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Belonging

Belonging is a human need. We are wired at birth to find connection to others. Brene Brown, a professor and researcher on social issues, and writer, states wisely that there is a difference between...