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Thoughts on Love

August 24, 2011

I’m visiting my Dad this week.  I can hear him snoring in his bedroom as I write and sip coffee.  Last night as I put medicated ointment on his rashed back and massaged his neck, he said, “Carla, I’m glad you’re here.  You got here just in time.  I was really getting down.”  Bless his [...]

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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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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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Transcend and Embrace

January 27, 2011

I found an old charm bracelet at Daddy’s house while visiting.  I recognized it but couldn’t remember who’s it was.  I asked Daddy about it and we decided it must have been my grandmother’s.  It’s a simple bracelet with three charms:  two female silhouettes—one engraved with my sister’s name and birth date and one with [...]

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Relaxing Resistance and Irritation

January 7, 2011

I awoke early.  All seemed to be aspiring for me to get out of bed to begin my morning rituals.  I was resistant, but realized I would not go back to sleep. I was irritated while meditating.  I was running a story line in my mind that I had difficulty dropping.  I was agitated.  I [...]

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Handling a Vision

December 15, 2010

I am excited about a vision that has been taking form in me recently.  It’s just beginning to gel.  I have much energy for this vision, but I am in no way organized around it and it isn’t even fully formed.  I wish someone would swoop in and organize all my thoughts and ideas for [...]

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A Taste

December 6, 2010

“Are you not humanity itself?  Do you not touch all things human, because you are its only Witness?  Do you not therefore love the world, and love all people, and love the Kosmos, because you are its only self?  Do you not weep when one person is hurt, do you not cry when one child [...]

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Ride the Wave

November 12, 2010

I breathe with ease today and with deep gratitude.  My sweet little grandnephew has passed the 48-hour mark—a critical time.  The doctor has given him an A+!  That’s two A pluses in two days!  Such good news after several scary days. I marvel at the complexity and uncertainty of life.  I shake my head at [...]

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Cultivating Relationships

October 7, 2010

“We are broken and beautiful at the same time, and none of us is fully who we claim to be.  We are stumbling pilgrims trying to figure out what it means to be human.” Gareth Higgins writing about Tyler Clementi I had a great birthday party last weekend.  I had friends show up from as [...]

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