The Rite of Writing
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Nov 30, 20224 min read
Fixing? Helping? Serving?
Ease from “footies!” Plus life as a patient has deeply informed a physician’s practice. She has distilled this wisdom….
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Nov 16, 20223 min read
Ease-ment of the Week
These practices can offer a little sense of relief from the stress of living in this crazy world. Most of them are conveniently portable.
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Nov 9, 20224 min read
It's Amazing How Much...
As humans we seem to be attracted, even addicted at times, to the negative. This gave our ancestors a survival edge. The good news is…
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Nov 2, 20221 min read
Still There Is Much That Is Fair
It's too easy to get caught up in the negativity and anger that surrounds us these days. So today I share images of things fair and simple.
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Oct 26, 20223 min read
A Twelve Billion Year Legacy
It gives me a sense of how vast I am in some ways, and how a ridiculously tiny at the same time.
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Oct 19, 20223 min read
Leaves Falling...On Us
Sometimes they fall on us--that's always fun--but they rarely land exactly where we think they will.
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Oct 12, 20224 min read
Time of Wonder
His prose is delightful, incorporating a sing-song repetition, rooted in the rhythms--and surprises--of nature and time.
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Oct 5, 20223 min read
Feet On the Ground
But the adventurous part took over. So I headed outside before I even read the article...
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Sep 28, 20223 min read
Bon appétit!
"Consider daily sitting practice to be a kind of spiritual food." That's a lovely thought. I like food. But what happens when I get hungry?
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Sep 21, 20223 min read
The Latitude of Gratitude
I have enjoyed using the somewhat cutesy (but memorable) phrase, "an attitude of gratitude." And what did I realize today?
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Sep 7, 20221 min read
The Remarkable Place Where Humans (Maybe) Reside But Mostly We Don't Want to Know...Or Do We?
We are suspended between source and resource, comfort and glory...
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Aug 31, 20224 min read
Sons of...Sons With?
I laughed out loud. And there it was, my opportunity for shared humor--and shared humanity.
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Aug 24, 20222 min read
Sitting and Knowing?
Spooneristic poems about Runny Babbit by Shel SIlverstein plus a different poem: Slip on through the fountain in the moonlit air...
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Aug 10, 20224 min read
Can I Sew You to Another Sheet?
Attributed to William Spooner, who sometimes mixed up letters and words with interesting results: "it is kisstomary to cuss the bride."
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Aug 3, 20224 min read
Beginner's Fingers, Beginner's Mind
From this perspective, to be a beginner is a gift. And what a wonderful way to approach the world, other people and our own psyches.
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Jul 27, 20223 min read
That Little Beast
Words can fly like birds but when you try to catch them, they slither around like fish. Poems by Mary Oliver, David Whyte and a novice poet
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Jul 21, 20223 min read
From Before Always
Coupled with the beauty & incredible age of those mountains, the silence offered us a way to slip into a different sense of timelessness.
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Jul 13, 20223 min read
Indra's Web
An infinite, cosmic web of interconnection, where every juncture of the threads is a jewel.
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Jul 6, 20224 min read
What the World Needs...
The best gifts, by far, are those in which both giver and receiver have great joy.
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