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Why I Meditate

January 28, 2011

I tried taking up meditation years ago because I had heard of the benefits and my anxiety was out the top.  I simply couldn’t do it because my mind and body were too agitated.  I could rarely make it past a couple of minutes before crawling out of my skin.  What to do with this [...]

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Life is Practice

January 6, 2011

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”  Marian Wright Edelman Life is practice.  Being faithful to that which is before us in each moment is the [...]

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Stretch Beyond Ourselves

October 8, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the lack of constructive dialogue in this country.  I am grieved that folks don’t seem to be able to talk to one another anymore. The rigidity, superiority, and posturing I see on all sides concerns me.  The lack of respect, compassion, and kindness startle me.  What are we [...]

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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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A Delight and A Joy

October 1, 2010

“K’ung said:  To learn and then put it in practice–isn’t that a delight?  To have friends come from afar–isn’t that a joy?”  The Lun Yu Today, I turn 50!  Half a century has come and gone.  A lifetime for me—A blink of the eye in eternity. What have I learned these past 50 years? I [...]

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Heavy Cream, Please!

August 18, 2010

While living in Vermont, I discovered fresh, organic cream–heavy cream.  I shall never again enjoy black coffee, it seems, though I drank it that way for many decades.   Now I take my coffee with heavy cream and lots of it.  None of this light, skinny stuff. I suppose my coffee habits speaks to the way [...]

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The Practice of Discipline

July 7, 2010

The Kingfisher dove suddenly from the tall pine.  I heard his chatter just before he launched.  I looked up to witness the bird tumble toward the water, submerge for a split second, then rise with ease.  He plunged with resolve and precision.  I had been glancing up at him from my float while he sat [...]

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Speak the Truth

May 26, 2010

I mentioned yesterday that something is bubbling in me.  I had a dream the other night that gave me a hint.  It felt important.  As I was moving through that state between sleeping and waking, I got a clear message:  Speak the truth with kindness, clarity, and authority. It was that clear. It stayed with [...]

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What Do You See?

April 28, 2010

Believe it or not, this is a photo of the side of an old barn.  These are the colors that were present there. I simply ran up the saturation to emphasize those colors; otherwise, you would only see browns and grays with extremely subtle–almost undetectable–blues, reds, and yellows.  And look at the design!  I would [...]

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