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Denying and Grasping

March 24, 2011

I’ve been eating out of control in the last week.  I have the munchies—I want to eat a lot, more than I’m comfortable eating.  This suggests that I am stuffing something or grasping something.  To be sure, I’m out of balance.  I wonder what’s up? I had a meeting the other day with someone who [...]

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Shoo Shame

October 26, 2010

I went to a cooking class last night where I saw some folks I had met a couple of days before at a party.  I was happy to see them, but I realized that I felt some shame.  The shame surprised me, as it always seems to do. I felt shame that in my enthusiasm [...]

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Roots of Wisdom and Compassion

October 13, 2010

I was in the cafeteria line with my father.  He had just finished his blood transfusion and wanted something to eat on the way home from the hospital.  As we stood in line, I asked “Do you think I can get a discount now that I’m 50?”  Daddy chuckled and said, “I don’t think so”, [...]

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Spiritual Coaching

October 12, 2010
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Be Authentic, be Awake, be Alive You are unique..  You  hear the sound of a different drummer but have some reticence in following it—maybe even shame. You are fed up with conventional wisdom. Mainstream consciousness is too constrictive.  Even the alternative options feel inauthentic and limiting. You yearn for change and realize that you must [...]

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Conditioned Identity

September 15, 2010

Since being back in the south, near familiar culture, family, and old friends, I feel the pull of living my life in a certain way; it’s a pull I feel more strongly than I’ve felt in years.  I suppose it’s good that I didn’t come back sooner because I’ve needed a deep enough, grounded enough, [...]

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Liberated from Drama

August 25, 2010

“To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.” Ken Keyes Jr. When I look back on the drama in my life, it looks different from when I was consumed by it.  I can see how I contributed to most of it, at least since I’ve been an adult.  As a child, I [...]

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Beyond Wrongdoing and Rightdoing

May 11, 2010
missouri fox trotter

This is a view from the balcony of my new place.  Hot Shot is one of the horses I care for, a Missouri Foxtrotter, and he is a horse with an attitude.  Did he get his name because he acts like a hot shot, or does he act like a hot shot because he got [...]

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