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The Stories we tell ourselves

Good Evening, God! In the newspaper this morning I read an article about how, since 9/11, there has been a surge in companies offering to train police to be “warriors”. The article quotes from a 2015 Harvard Law Review article

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Posted in A God given diversity, a new view of Commons, Being With, connecting, Conversations, Empathy, systematic rebuilding required, Talking Together

Einstein’s Brain, the Corpus Callosum, and Congress

Sometimes, I think that our two political parties are a bit like our two hemispheres. Only, maybe there are not enough people acting as part of the Corpus Callosum in our Body Politic?

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Posted in Communication, connecting, connections, respect, systematic rebuilding required

Medicare and Massage — A Healthier America

Ah, but Anxiety Stress is different! That kind of Stress burns up our energy and leaves behind lumps like hunks of charcoal clogging our bodies and our hearts.

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Posted in healing, health, systematic rebuilding required, Uncategorized, web of life

Robojellies and 20 million trees

Good Morning, God! Well, I actually thought THIS WAS a photo of the robojellyfish that scientists have been working on. Not so! It is a box jellyfish. The photo appeared in an article in Space Daily about how engineers at Virginia

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Posted in Choosing Meaning, Creating, earning a living, systematic rebuilding required

A Modest Proposal Concerning Food Stamps

Good Morning, God! A few days ago, Sandy emailed me that she was upset about an obese family using food stamps (an obese mom and two obese sons) to buy chips and soda pop. Sandy sees them when she visits

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Posted in food questions, supportive organizational structures, systematic rebuilding required, The Learning Revolution

What happened to MY Overfill Alarm?

Good Morning, God! I just happened to notice this small little box the other day while I was getting gas. I didn’t remember ever seeing it before. It clearly says it is an “Overfill Alarm.” My instant response was WHY

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Posted in Borrowing from the Body's Bank, busy, setting my life in context, systematic rebuilding required, The difficulty of changing

Rocks into Walls? Or into Roads?

Good Morning, God! I was chatting with a friend who was telling me about going into a doctor’s office and seeing a group of men sitting there. What struck her was how “alone” they were. Each one was avoiding eye

Posted in Communication, listening, Possibilities, Stress, systematic rebuilding required

Breakfasting in Beauty — Pondering Oil Disasters

Here I am , God. I’m looking forward to having breakfast this morning at the Plumeria restaurant at the Kahala hotel. I love this place. I love the green grass, the palms, the ocean and the sky. Then there is

Posted in a matter of scale, adoring Easy, asking for help for myself, authority over my life, Balancing and adjustments, beauty, Choosing to respond, Options, responding to God's Spirit, responsibility, systematic rebuilding required, Venturing out of the shallows?

The Lusitania and Sinking My Old Mental Maps

Good Day, God! Oh sigh, O DRAT! It is alway discomfiting, God, to have to rewrite history as I learned it. The Lusitania was sort of a sailing Pearl Harbor, circa 1915. Great Britain was in what was know as

Posted in accepting my need for help, asking for help for myself, becoming the change I wish to see, being together in a compassionate presence, choosing HARD, courage to see myself, growing toward up, perspectives, processing on deeper levels, systematic rebuilding required

A Day at Home

Good Morning, God, This is the Day After the Sabbath — my second Sabbath — and I am eager to WORK.  Thankful to stay home and plan.  PLAN.  Not just DO but plan.  Ponder what it is that I want

Posted in asking for help for myself, authority over my life, Balancing and adjustments, busy, systematic rebuilding required, time

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