Practicing Ease: Allow Sadness, Seek Comfort
There is a sacredness in tears….They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues…
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Easing the Journey Through Shadow & Light
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- Nov 30, 2022
- 4 min
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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- Aug 17, 2022
- 3 min
Oh Dear, What Did I Hear?
Sometimes the brain comes up with strange things as it tries to make sense of what it *thinks* it is hearing...
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- Aug 3, 2022
- 4 min
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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- Jun 15, 2022
- 3 min
Deep Calls to Deep
My 1st song in 30 years rises behind my eyes, begging to come out. I'm trying to sing the stars, thirsting to sing the stars.
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- Jun 8, 2022
- 4 min
All or Nothing? Listening for Our Common Grief
Can we honor our common grief, our common tendencies to slide into all-or-nothing in the aftermath of these terrible traumatic events?
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- May 18, 2022
- 4 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 20, 2022
- 4 min
The Thing with Feathers
After all these years I'm still amazed when those minuscule seeds grow into plants hundreds of times bigger than their infant selves.
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- Apr 6, 2022
- 6 min
The Opus to Be Translated Is Yourself
All that I hoped to say in books, all that I ever hoped to say, is that I love the world. E. B. White
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- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
Very Well Right Where You Are
This is a bit odd, I thought...Of course, you can pick my experience to pieces logically if you want to. I'm choosing to take it as a gift.
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- Mar 16, 2022
- 4 min
That's How the Light Gets In: The Artist as Struggling Hero
In the artist's journey these inner fears often *are* the Threshold Guardians: I'm not a good enough. This is stupid. Nobody will like it.
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- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
Trees Might Bloom: On Writing
There are lots of things to be afraid of as a writer--being exposed, ignored, ridiculed. But there’s also elation, even wonder, as I write.
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- Dec 8, 2021
- 4 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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- Dec 1, 2021
- 2 min
Change One Word
I came across an interesting little article the other day that claimed you could make a big difference in your life by changing one word…
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 3 min
A Serving of Criticism? Or Kindness?
A few months ago I had a dream about my dad, who died in 2007. He was talking on the phone with two rather verbally abusive people...
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- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
Musings on Mortality OR "I'm Not Dead Yet!"
I never thought it would happen to me. I know that's trite but there was some secret part of my mind that never believed I would get old.
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- Oct 13, 2021
- 4 min
Small Mercies: The Best Nurse Ever
Don't discount those small kindnesses you offer to others. Tiny things can matter as much as big.
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- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 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 29, 2021
- 5 min
Screen Time: Why I (Finally) Got Rid of My Television
Some part of me had known I was in denial when I sat on that cold kitchen floor. But I denied my denial.
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- Sep 22, 2021
- 4 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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