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Bromeliad Leaves, Connections and Respect

I feel as if I am just barely touching the Deep Importance of the Logarithmic Acceleration of Internet Connections. It is as if my mind knows it is BIG and IMPORTANT but is blind to how or why or what it might mean.

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Posted in connecting, connections, respect, Sharing

Sitting (right now) off the beaten path

I am now beginning to understand viscerally what Dr. Arch Hart said about how “BUSY builds a WALL around our brain’s Pleasure Center.”

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Posted in Balancing and adjustments, busy, busy as an attack strategy, compassion to care for myself, humility

Enlarging our View — Life as Meaningful

We’re working hard pulling people out of the River of illness. How about looking upstream to see why they were falling in?

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Posted in friends, health, Hope as a gift from God, learning

Looking back on a Good Day

One excellent result that comes out of being sick is that one realizes (eventually . . .) that many of our “virtues” have more to do with the level of our energy than our character.

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Posted in compassion to care for myself, gratitude, recovery time, thankfulness, the layers of life, Transitions

Blue Sky, Full Moon, Full Heart

if I don’t do my “share,” then other people in our family system will have to do my emotional laundry

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Posted in adjusting, asking for help for myself, fears, Feeling our feelings, processing on deeper levels, seeing

Wistful Thoughts on a Grey Day

A Council of Grandmothers. That’s what I’d like to see!

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Posted in Common sense and reasonableness, health, Peace

Inner Mortgages — Do They Get Paid Off?

Well, not being able to know, I shall try for trust. I shall try to rest in the not knowing.

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Posted in Changing, complexity, LOVE, Ongoing Transformation, Trusting God

True Rest: Coming to a Full Stop

Sophia Loren said it: Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.

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Posted in LOVE, Mistakes, reframing, relaxation, rest

Reassembling Myself: Between Past and Future

Feeling as if I am on the very TIP of the exponential curve that is our technological world.

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Posted in Changing, God's Time, Needed Repair Time, setting my life in context

A Gift of Perspective

Good Day, God! I’m home with a cold and cough, drifting aimlessly and tired of introspection. I need a change of subject! The Aurora Borealis seemed like a beautiful topic. There is a lovely time lapse video of the auroras as seen from

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Posted in Energy, our small blue dot, Perspective, web of life

Blogs I Follow
Brené Brown

chatting and sometimes, listening

Rachel Naomi Remen

chatting and sometimes, listening

A Moment with God

chatting and sometimes, listening

Sacred Dance Guild Journal

Since 1958 articles by members & guests offer news about activities, history, Sacred Dance practices, profiles of Sacred Dancers, choreography, images & illustrations.

Victoria Paulsen

How to Step In -- Substitute Teaching

Brené Brown

chatting and sometimes, listening

Rachel Naomi Remen

chatting and sometimes, listening

A Moment with God

chatting and sometimes, listening

Sacred Dance Guild Journal

Since 1958 articles by members & guests offer news about activities, history, Sacred Dance practices, profiles of Sacred Dancers, choreography, images & illustrations.

Victoria Paulsen

How to Step In -- Substitute Teaching