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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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Interrupting the Story

February 4, 2011

I have been making a conscious effort to examine and drop the story lines I create.  It’s not easy and I have a long way to go.  My story lines are often unconscious—a result of habit, culture, family, etc.  For example, I’ve told myself, three or four times already this morning, that I don’t feel [...]

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Sadness Flowing

January 25, 2011

I notice when I’m sad that I have an immediate tendency to want to think about the sadness, rather than feel it.  Why am I sad?  What does this mean?  I shouldn’t be sad.  I should be really sad!  Why aren’t I stronger?  What’s wrong with me anyway? When the thoughts take over, I begin [...]

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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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The Practice of Expanding and Releasing

December 29, 2010

Day 9 of my sinus infection and I’m finally beginning to get some relief—thanks to the antibiotic that I was reluctant to take.  Yesterday, I got discouraged.  I was tired of being sick and unable to attend to some exciting projects.  Much like the copious amounts of infection clogging my sinuses, thoughts began to fill [...]

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Crazy Mind

April 15, 2010
pond reflections

Here, in northeast PA, we heat the home with a monster outdoor wood stove.  We call it the Beast.  It usually works like a charm, but the other day I noticed that the water light was off.  It’s very important to keep water running through it.  No problem, I just filled it. The next day, [...]

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