Practicing Ease:Talking Funny
Talking funny--I guarantee a lot of smiles, if not some outright belly laughs. Give it a try.
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Jun 7, 20232 min
Practicing Ease: Playful Retching
A playful way to discharge negative feelings!
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Jan 18, 20232 min
How to Feel as Good as You Can In Spite of Everything
So enjoy, find some ease, be a little mischievous. Be loose. Be silly.
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Jan 4, 20232 min
Ease-ment of the Month: Horselips.... Bbbbbbbbbbbbbb!
It's hard to do horselips if you are smiling or laughing, and hard not to laugh if you are doing it. Give it a try.
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May 18, 20224 min
Fledgling
There was a whir of wings, a little flash of grey and white, and a tiny bird landed on the outer edge of the deck. We held our breaths.
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Apr 13, 20223 min
Fawn
There are deer, birds, foxes, wildflowers and more. But you have to look. Lawrence looks with eyes that see things others tend to pass by.
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Jan 12, 20225 min
Strike a Balance: COVID Info Plus Some Fun
Three parts to this post: COVID Info & Resources, Good News about COVID, and Fun Ways to Distract Yourself from Bad News. Read any or all!
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Dec 8, 20214 min
Let There Be Songs
Never really listened to the words for any Grateful Dead songs. True statement. Never listened to or looked at the words, fool that I was.
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Nov 3, 20213 min
Silence: Three (Very Short) Stories
On the backside of that hill the incessant noise of traffic and construction was buffered out…so we could drink in the silence as well.
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Oct 27, 20212 min
When I Am Among the Trees
Sometimes I slow down enough to tune into a tree, enough--perhaps--to hear the trailing notes of an ancient song.
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Oct 6, 20213 min
Further Adventures in Mindfulness: By a Bumbling Practitioner
If I allow my mind to still, if I let go of my need to control, sometimes I ease into a quiet state where time does not hold me captive.
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Sep 22, 20214 min
27 Varieties of Gratitude
When others are grateful toward you for what you have done, it makes you want to do more for them. This has the same effect on...
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Sep 15, 20214 min
Swiss Cheese and the Pandemic: A Few COVID Resources
Think of COVID protection as if it were Swiss cheese. Each slice has holes somewhere, but if we are strategic about the placement...
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Aug 18, 20214 min
Easily Amused
Lawrence and I share a trait that has always been a gift to us, but has proven to be especially helpful during the pandemic--we are both…
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Jun 16, 20211 min
My Shortest Poem
This is a good sequel for almost all of the tools I've shared over the last year. In fact, it is probably the most important concept of all.
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Apr 21, 20213 min
Healing into the New Normal: Gentle Re-Entry as the Pandemic Begins (we hope) to Ease
When astronauts go through re-entry, they may be coming back home to some semblance of "normal" but no one expects re-entry to be simple.
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Feb 3, 20213 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 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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Oct 21, 20204 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, 20203 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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