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Welcoming Life Transitions

August 8, 2011

“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson I haven’t written in awhile; the longest I’ve gone without writing since I began this blog.  I’ve been in a particularly draining transition. Transitions are interesting to me:  so many lessons, opportunities, and challenges. It seems that I can’t keep up on Life’s [...]

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Consent to Life

July 19, 2011

  “You must not be frighten, dear Mr. Kappus, when a sadness arises within you of such magnitude as you have never experienced, or when a restlessness overshadows all you do, like light and the shadow of clouds gliding over your hand.  You must believe that something is happening to you, that life has not [...]

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Simply Love One Another

July 8, 2011

As you may know, I am reading Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and Pathways to God, Living the Bhagavad Gita by Ram Dass.  I intended to share with you some reflections on their words today, but another’s words have taken hold of me and touched my more deeply. I am visiting [...]

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Precious Moments

April 14, 2011

I’m visiting Daddy for a couple of days.  Last night, I cooked dinner for us and called Daddy to the table when it was ready.  As he walked in, he said, “Carla, I feel good when you’re here.”  My heart expanded!  I was deeply touched.  What a gift those words are to me.  Words I [...]

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Presence Remains

March 29, 2011

I am thinking of my friend who discovered a brain tumor last week.  Yesterday, she found out that it is cancer and aggressive.  I am sad. Lately, I have been reading Grace and Grit, Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber, by Ken Wilber.  It is the wrenching and beautiful [...]

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All Part of Life

March 23, 2011

I sat on the balcony watching the horses.  At the end of the pasture, I noticed a large cloud of yellow pollen roll in like thick fog.  Springtime in Georgia!  The pollen is everywhere and on everything.  Nothing escapes–especially my eyes and nose.  As I sat watching the cloud of pollen, I smiled.  This is [...]

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This is the Only Moment

March 8, 2011

Two relatives—unbeknown to the other—went in for emergency surgery Saturday night.  My brother and Daddy’s brother.  Both in their early 60s.  Both strong, healthy men—or so we thought.  One with appendicitis and the other with a cancer discovered only 6 days earlier.  Both full of life. One survived and one didn’t. My father’s brother died [...]

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Trembling of a Leaf

December 9, 2010

“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” Albert Schweitzer All the leaves have fallen now–mostly.  Temperatures plummet.  Winter arrives with no announcement.  December.  The ending of a decade. My emotions have had a [...]

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White Knuckle Grip

December 7, 2010

I’m thinking of my Dad this morning.  He turns 85 on Friday.   He’s been talking about this birthday ever since he was 80.  For reasons I don’t understand, his 85th birthday is particularly important to him.  It will be especially sweet to celebrate with him after all he’s been through with the cancer.  I don’t [...]

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Grief Expressed

November 19, 2010

I am sitting on Daddy’s sofa watching the sunrise in the small field behind his house.  The tall grasses glisten in the golden sun.  I hear faint rumblings of traffic and a train beyond the field.  I can hear Daddy snoring in his bedroom—now a sneeze, and another.  He’s getting out of bed probably to [...]

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