Practicing Ease: Sitting Within Yourself
I find out, again and again, that the world carries on without me.
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Easing the Journey Through Shadow & Light
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- Jun 7
- 2 min
Practicing Ease: Playful Retching
A playful way to discharge negative feelings!
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- May 17
- 3 min
The Ocean of Longing
...the ocean of longing shifts through me, the blessed inner star of navigation moves in the dark sky above...
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- May 3
- 2 min
Practicing Ease: Doing Then Not Doing
A pause allows body, soul and brain to assimilate the new...
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- Apr 19
- 4 min
Leaf By Niggle
True fairy-stories give “a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.” JRR Tolkien
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- Mar 15
- 3 min
A World. I Am a World.
Think millefiori meets interplanetary/biologist/geologist/exquisitely talented glass artist!
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- Feb 1
- 1 min
Practicing Ease: Allow Sadness, Seek Comfort
There is a sacredness in tears….They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues…
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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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