Courage

A Beautiful Dead Lady

September 8, 2011

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.  Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeons knife, effective but unpleasant.  Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”  Sri Yukteswar These words made a deep impression, and the image of the beautiful dead lady stays with me. I grew up in the south and not [...]

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Owl Medicine

July 22, 2011

I discovered owls yesterday.  Four of them.  It appears that two are babies. This morning, after putting the horses in, I went to the tree.  They were all there. I lay beneath the tree watching and listening.  They were tussling a bit, then one flew over to nearby tree with a chunk of food (a [...]

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To the Greatest Extent Possible

July 20, 2011

“It is as though fear has caused something to be lifted out of the riverbed of limitless possibilities to a fallow stretch of shore where nothing happens.  For it is not inertia alone that causes the unspeakably monotonous and unrenewed human condition to repeat itself again and again.  It is the aversion to anything new, [...]

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Beautiful and Courageous

July 6, 2011

Today, I am heading to funeral.  I have the honor of singing for a man who was a brilliant musician.  I wish I had had the opportunity to sit with him for years and learn all he knew–just a reminder that time is fleeting and the importance of seizing the moment.  Uncle Elroy will be [...]

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Explore Dream Discover

June 28, 2011

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”   Mark Twain Three big words:  Explore Dream Discover Words of courage, [...]

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Courage to Face What Is

April 6, 2011

It’s an interesting thing—Acceptance.  How I resist it.  How I contract.  How easily I can turn a blind eye. I think of Japan.  I read that they have raised their radiation safe limit in their fish.  I also read that the US Environmental Protection Agency intends to raise limits for radiation exposure, and that Canada [...]

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The Good, The True, The Beautiful

April 5, 2011

Wake up!  Wake up to the good, the true, and the beautiful.  In the midst of all the turmoil, these three remain.  Touch each one right now. Breathe the air into your lungs and feel yourself expand.  Listen to the bird song fill your ears and sing your heart alive.  See the humanity in your [...]

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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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The World Needs Your Unique Gifts

March 14, 2011

I have something to offer the world.  I have unique gifts to give.  I want to give them.  I have personal and professional experience unlike any one else.  You do, too—a voice, gifts, and power unlike any other.  Can you feel that bubbling within you?  Can you imagine what might shift if we were all [...]

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Springtime Reminds Me

March 3, 2011

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”  Abraham Lincoln Springtime reminds me to let go of the old and let bloom the new.  [...]

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