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 25, 20212 min read
Even After All This Time
Today I just want to share a few poems that have touched me over the years.
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Aug 18, 20214 min read
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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Aug 11, 20214 min read
Come to the edge...and...
No one could discern the roots of that terror. It was strangely elusive, perhaps from a time or place where there were no words.
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Jul 28, 20213 min read
Forget Your Perfect Offering
Something has been pulling on me, calling me to simplify, ease down, clear space to make room for something...new? different? re-focused?
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Jul 21, 20213 min read
Here.
The essence of mindfulness. When I am here, I can feel my feet, feel my breath, feel my beating heart--notice in this moment that I am okay.
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Jul 7, 20217 min read
The Girl Who Became a River
They flowed with strength and steady pace through the heart of the village and together, they rolled on towards the Sea…
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Jun 23, 20212 min read
Dis-armed
I didn't feel good there, but sometimes I felt a little less bad. A tiny shift, but it was a start.
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Jun 16, 20211 min read
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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Jun 9, 20212 min read
A Sense of Beauty?
People reported an increased sense of well-being & happiness when experiencing beauty. So, here are some photos I think are beautiful.
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Jun 2, 20214 min read
She Was There All Along
The power, the sweat, the struggle, the elemental, primordial nature of birth. The incredible joy of new life when it is complete.
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May 5, 20213 min read
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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Apr 28, 20212 min read
deeper glimmer showing
I'll never forget the train ride home after Christmas that year, as every clack of the wheels pulled me further & further away from her.
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
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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Apr 14, 20214 min read
You Listen and You Tell and You Become
"If stories come to you, care for them....learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food."
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Apr 7, 20213 min read
I Heard the Stars Singing
"And when I dreamed my dream I awoke and came swiftly....I heard the stars singing as I came and felt warm wings about me..."
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Mar 24, 20215 min read
A Storm-Cat, Two Heroes and a Village Full of Light
"Her purring rose like a hymn to home above the noise of the Great Storm-Cat. Such music had not reached his ears since the dawn of time."
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Mar 17, 20213 min read
We're Gonna Have Fun, I Know We Will: The Arbor Hill ABCs
A lighthearted song...I hope it brightens up your day, bringing back some good memories--your own or maybe your kids' or grandkids'.
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Feb 3, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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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