Gently Unfolding Your Heart: A Few Suggestions from an Inveterate Journaler
I let the pictures whisper, or call out, so they become like dream images, leaving more room for revelation, for mythic or mystical meaning.
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Jan 6, 20215 min
Small Seeds of Hope: A Short Cat-alogue of Playful Poems
I love to play with words & to read others who do that well. Here are three lighthearted--and cat-intense--poems. For fun!
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Dec 30, 20203 min
A Winter's Tale: The Space Between
Could this silent darkness be one of winter's gifts? Asking us to bow like the grasses, acknowledging our own bare and basic shape?
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Dec 16, 20202 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Cold and Starlight Turn to Gold
It is early morning winter,
cold and starlight turn to gold. Slowly I awake to find you standing where I saw you last...
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Nov 11, 20203 min
Small Seeds of Hope: A More Merciful End
Anti-Anxiety Tool of the Week Gratitude: Noticing the Little Things. Neuroscientist Alex Korb, author of The Upward Spiral, notes that,...
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Sep 9, 20204 min
Small Seeds of Hope: A Tiny Toolkit of Quotations
Quotations, in a sense, are stories in miniature. Here are a few of my current favorites.
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Sep 2, 20203 min
Small Seeds of Hope: I Will Not Fan the Flames
So I find myself saying, what do I have to add that could possibly address any aspect of this heartbreak?
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Aug 5, 20204 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Love Who? Postdoctoral Spirituality
Perhaps I am naive, but my idea of a leader is someone who inspires you to be your best self, not one who bullies. Not an enemy-maker.
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Jul 22, 20204 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Seedtime and Harvest
Seeds have such a delightful, concentrated potential. In winter, gardeners build their dreams from seeds...
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Jul 15, 20204 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Hold It Up to Your Light
Surrender to the magic of a poem. Be open to the small animals of meaning that wander through. Let the poems in your life run & slide...
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Jul 8, 20201 min
Sitting still and allowing love
Today I want to share two poems that continue to touch me. Perhaps you can rest in the tenderness and freedom they offer?
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Jul 1, 20204 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Bad News, Good News
The good news is that your child is there before you,
and your arms are available: Hugging is possible.
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May 13, 20204 min
Anti-Covidanxiety Toolkit #9
We all need support to be brave, less anxious, to lean a little bit more into love. So I continue to share these little pieces of hope...
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Apr 2, 20203 min
More good news: Songs and poems
A few more poems/songs that have been speaking to me in the midst of this strange new pandemic world we find ourselves in.
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Mar 25, 20202 min
News from a Few Poems
"It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." William Carlos Williams
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Mar 22, 20206 min
Anti-Covidanxiety Toolkit #2
A new edition of the Anti-covidanxiety toolkit including your contributions, complete with cartoons.
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Mar 11, 20202 min
Dream of Fire: A Poem
Would a whale long for the desert? It could, if its ancestors walked on the solid earth. Would a hawk spiral down into flame? Perhaps not...
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Feb 12, 20202 min
The Fellowship of Grief
Such a relief to be with people who needed no explanation for the often massive feelings I was having. They got it. They were in it too.
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Oct 31, 20191 min
Unfolding—A Poem
Loosen, fingers, loosen your death grip on this very day. Open to the atmosphere of open, drink in large draughts of clear. Hear the rain
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Oct 22, 20192 min
Why "Unfolding"? And What Was that About Trains?
Unfolding is what a rose does when it’s been planted in nourishing earth...and what a baby does as it is being born...
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