Stories in Miniature: Tiny Toolkit of Quotations #2
I like quotations--they can be a bit like tiny stories, complete with a conflict or problem and some sort of resolution. And they're short!
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- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
In Falling and In Rising
Something so beautiful & unusual that it follows you around for days, rising again & again from hidden stairways of your heart...
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- Jan 27, 2021
- 3 min
Being. Breathing. Being Breathed.
An absurd fantasy--I mentally roll my eyes when I read it. Yet when I decided to write about mindfulness this week that essay came to mind.
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- Jan 20, 2021
- 4 min
Balance, Balance, Balance...THUD!
When I looked at that piece of paper the next morning I saw the following: true gifts, humility, self-confidence, grandiosity. Ohhhh...
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- Jan 13, 2021
- 4 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Inverted and Everted Pain
I'm sorry he is in such pain. It is not a fun place to be. But with great power comes great responsibility. And if that power is abused...
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- Jan 6, 2021
- 5 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, 2020
- 3 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 23, 2020
- 3 min
A Winter's Tale: Light Has Started to Come Back
It's a brief tale. About a very large tail. A snow leopard tail--or rather, the lack thereof. I am in awe of snow leopards...
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- Dec 16, 2020
- 2 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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- Dec 9, 2020
- 4 min
In Order to Grow—Pruning Off a Major Branch
"Looks like we just gave ZZ Top a shave & crewcut!" said Celia. We looked at the huge and tangled heaps of grape vines we'd just pruned off.
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- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Spacing Material, Mortar and Dark Matter
Anti-Anxiety Tool of the Week: Jiggling This is one of my favorite ways to reduce stress. Just jiggle your entire body, gently but...
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- Nov 25, 2020
- 5 min
A Dark and Spicy Tradition
Anti-Anxiety Tool of the Week Hand to heart. This one is very simple. Just place your hand on your chest, slightly to the left of...
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- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Either/Or? Both/And?
Anti-Anxiety Tool of the Week "I am alright right now." In this present moment, just as you are right now, are you okay? Reading this...
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- Nov 11, 2020
- 3 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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- Nov 4, 2020
- 3 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Splitting Light
Anti-Anxiety Tool of the Week Feel your feet. When I am are upset or anxious, I tend to head way off in the future or back into the...
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- Oct 28, 2020
- 4 min
Small Seeds: Experimenting with Prayer and Hope
Why not participate in the Good Big Thing and then reach out from those places to join with those are living out grace?
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- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
Small Seeds of Hope: It's Amazing How Much How Little Will Do
Sometimes a tiny shift can solve a big problem...
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- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
Small Seeds of Hope: A Lighthearted Story...in Fifteen (Short) Stanzas
And now for something completely different...a children's story, in verse, about a young girl and her great-grandmother. Just for fun.
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- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
Small Seeds of Hope: Breathe in Beauty
Beauty is all around me--it hasn't gone away. The trees, the sky, a bird, an odd little insect. How to breathe in beauty & be in the world?
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- Sep 30, 2020
- 5 min
Life In the COVID Era: Resources and a Few Funnies
This week I thought I'd share a few resources I've come across for dealing with various aspects of the pandemic. Plus a few laughs.
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