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Love Beyond Measure

November 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most ” – hafiz How much Love can you take?  Let’s talk volume here. Is it enough? Is it too much? Can you take just a little more? And just a little more again? Why is there a set amount that is allowed? […]

Turning the Corner

November 13, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“…while the voice of social conditioning manifests itself as a stream of thoughts in the head, wisdom often appears as emotions or physical sensations in the body.” ~martha beck Unfoldment Rough hune husks fall away Making tender tendrils shown Creeping vines and shoots gather In a storm of awakening I am anew I am crossing […]

Viva Les Questions!

November 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“It can’t just be about others because it’s too depleting. It can’t just be about ourselves because it’s too lonely.” ~Jason Garner Everywhere everyday opportunities arise to help ourselves and to help others but where is the balance? How can we next make the right decision to help ourselves or to help others? What kind […]

The Divine in Scotland

October 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

the divine in the palm of our hands “I am where I need to be. Everything around me includes and hides the sacred.”                      ~ Mary Mrozowski This includes haggis. What is divine that is in front of you? Tag You’re It!

Fallen

October 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Fallen I am wounded  I am weak  I am not alone. Scooped up Made warm and welcome Earth dug deep with candles lit Your love nourishes me. Gracious nestling In your family’s home,  your heart, your lives, your land. Just now this way  I am safe  I can crow  I am made stronger  in your […]

Good Purposeless-ness…from Other Voices

October 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“like the lovely, free-form edge of a bird’s wings, we cultivate our essence, an alchemy of soul…..this, simply by being present and alive…..yes, fully alive……”  ~ in the blue Our Strength Found in Fragile Depths  “I am especially struck with the idea of the purposeless life, filling the well with snow. I suppose all life […]

Hurdles – Present and Past

October 15, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I have a thirsty fish in methat can never find enough of what it’s thirsty for!~ Rumi This was my father.  He passed away 5 days ago. He was 75 and I loved him very much and I know he loved me. And even though I have 2 years experience in the grief department and because I […]

Pumpkin Bread

October 1, 2014 · Leave a Comment

He loved Pumpkin Bread. He loved a lot of specific things. He knew what he liked because after much living and much thinking about living he made a point to extract the wheat from the chaff. He knew by practical experimentation which things worked best and he held tight to those things.  So I always […]

Words as Tools

September 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I think words are tools by which we fashion a life. What other purpose could there be? Harmony  by Madeline Williams “I believe in Divine Harmony and nothing else. This means I have no belief in problems. No condition, situation or frustration can upset me, confuse me or destroy my equilibrium. I do not believe there […]

What Is is OK

September 26, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Work in Progress Glimpses of letting go Glimpses of holding on And the living in between Galloping forward  I am a work in progress  Rocking back and forth this way Steadiness seems out of the question right now But as sure as the letting go and the holding on and the in between happen over and […]

Paying Attention

September 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment

A Centipede was happy quite  until a frog in jest said, “Pray which leg comes after which?” This raised his doubts to such a pitch, He lay bewildered in a ditch Considering how to run. ~ Author Unknown Taking yet another e-course with Thomas Moore, author of “Care of the Soul”, we are studying The Holy Fool: […]

Change

September 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“The birds are molting. If only man could molt also – his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.” ~ james allen This is WCHG radio sweeping you forward to a brighter day! Give a listen. Click on the names below – unless you don’t want to feel empowered? Change […]

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Lani received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and earned a B.A in Art Education from NCCU in 2000.
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