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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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I Will Soar

April 26, 2011

What is this notion in my head that I need more time?  I have more time than most.  I have intentionally made it so.  Yet, now, I am pushing myself out of the nest. It’s time!  Spread your wings and fly! No!  Wait!  I need a little more time! Come on, baby, spread your wings [...]

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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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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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Golden Shadow

February 21, 2011

How many of us seek that which we already possess?  How many times have I looked outside myself for something that I already have within me?  I look to someone else for courage and strength, or fun and excitement.  I look to another situation for peace or pleasure.  I long for a new job, new [...]

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Take One Step

February 15, 2011

I want to move in some new directions but I’m scared.  Life is prodding me, as it always does.  It starts with a nudge, but if I don’t listen it eventually becomes a prod–this is the creative surge of life.  I begin to see the point and want to move, but before I know it, [...]

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It’s a Lifestyle

February 11, 2011

I often experience fear as worry and distraction—one friend mentioned procrastination.  Worry, distraction, and procrastination are ways I can distance from the deep-seated fear.  As long as I’m caught up with worry and distraction, I don’t have to face the fear directly.  I can side step it.  This can go on for days, months, and [...]

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Sadness and Fear Witnessed

January 24, 2011

I’m sad this morning, and scared.  Mostly, though I’m scared.  Mostly though, I’m sad—is what I meant to say!  Am I mostly scared?  I confuse myself sometimes.  The subconscious is so tricky—isn’t it? I’m venturing into new territory and that requires letting go of the old, thus the sadness and the fear.  The releasing of [...]

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Beauty Blooms with Practice

January 14, 2011

“For only in space can beauty bloom.”  Anne Morrow Lindbergh I’ve been playing around with this whole notion of creating space these last couple of years.  I do this in large part by simply witnessing whatever arises.  Witnessing is quite different from identifying with what arises.  It is the identification with what arises that causes [...]

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