Blog Archives

Failure as The First Step in Learning

Good Morning, God! Here’s a book I’d like to read. I just read an excerpt from it in Delancyplace.com about how failure is part of learning. Not only that, but the author urges us not to make a big deal

Posted in growing toward up, learning, web of life

Amazing Wildlife – A Call to Attunement

Good Morning, God! Millions of BATS? Who knew — who could even imagine — that many bats in ONE CAVE! It was Kit that signed me up as a member of the National Wildlife Federation and thus the National Wildlife

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Posted in A God given diversity, a matter of scale, web of life

Mushrooms, Trees and the Web of Life

Good Morning, God! An excerpt from the Omnivores Dilemma caught my eye this morning in Delanceyplace.com. I don’t buy or fix mushrooms very often — and I would NEVER eat a wild mushroom — still, I remember the section about

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Posted in a matter of scale, God wants to nourishes us, Humility or Needing Help!, web of life

Auroras, Solar Winds, and Miracles

Good Morning, God! Look God! How amazing just this one small planet is! Thank You! This Aurora was caused by a large Coronal Mass Ejection back in May. Now, I know YOU REALLY KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS. And, I know

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Posted in humility, Sunlight explored, Understanding, Venturing out of the shallows?, web of life

Reaching Out — Working Together — Remaking a River — and Your World

Good Morning, God! I just read a story about Freeing a River — opening Maine’s Penobscot River back up to Atlantic salmon and Atlantic sturgeon — giving them 100 miles of the main stem of the river and over a

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Posted in a new view of Commons, clear waterways, Common Sense, Communication, rejoicing, web of life

Butterflies, Systems Theory, and Emerging from our Chysalis

Good Morning, God I came across a “story” that is a favorite of mine (retold, I believe by Adrian Rogers): A man watched a butterfly trying to emerge from a cocoon. Thinking that he would help, the man took his

Posted in a series of molts and upgrades, Abundant Life, accepting my ability to REDESIGN, adjusting, complexity, web of life

Wrapping my roots around Your Love

Good Morning, God! I just read an email from my youngest daughter saying she had her own retreat yesterday — sitting next to a small stream in the Sabino Canyon National Park and reading her Bible and journaling. I’m back

Posted in A God given diversity, a matter of scale, an invitation to abundant life, appreciation, attunement, clapping our hands in joy, embedded in God's Time, intentional and invited sacred space, small meaningful moments, stopping, The Flow of God's Love, web of life

The Land, Lying Fallow, Increasing Yields and Us

I’m up early, God! My mind filled with a factoid from the book The Relentless Revolution. It seems that starting with the Dutch at the end of the 1500s the Land was no longer allowed to lie fallow. The Dutch

Posted in a matter of scale, lying fallow, Perspective, sabbath rest, time, web of life

Batiks and Earning a Living and Entitlement

Good Morning,God This batik is now one of the curtains in our bedroom.  I love to see it with the Light shining through. I saw the women making these batiks in Swaziland. I asked how they did it. Others must

Posted in meaningful work, processing on deeper levels, The poor and underemployed, web of life

Gardeners, The Book of Kells and InterConnections

So! What would this world look like if we put gardeners in charge of it?

Posted in A God given diversity, connections, growing toward up, Venturing out of the shallows?, 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