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Why are You in My Way?

November 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

“If you think you are too small to make a difference…try sleeping with a mosquito in the room” ~attributed to HHDL  Why are you in my way? I get so upset when I can’t do what I want to the way I want to when I want to and how I want to! But is […]

Tortoise as a Verb

November 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

What do you do with the in between time? That’s the time after one dream has left and another has yet to manifest. How is NOW properly propagated to pull yourself forward to your next dream. Well, first you have got to get a dream! What if there seems to be no dream on the […]

Judge-Mentle

November 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

“We treat love and hate and the other emotions like they are all on the same level, but they’re not. Hate, fear, lust, greed, jealousy – all that comes from the ego. Only love comes from the soul. When you identify with your soul, you live in a loving universe. The soul loves everybody. It’s […]

Pain into Champagne

November 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

“I am going to tell story with great meaning. I am going to make you cry, then make you laugh.” ~ me to myself after dreaming strange things. I keep hearing “Turn Pain into Champagne.” Heard it a while back over a period of a few days. And then there was this dream this morning. In […]

Contemplation vs Meditation

November 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Letting go of what arises to clear the way for listening 

Raw Clarity

November 7, 2018 · 1 Comment

How clarity messes up everything I already know. Is it bad when you are shown the truth and you just keep on walking like it never happened. What do I believe? I think I have to get clear here before I can matriculate to the next level of my life.    I have always understood – […]

What do you want?

March 13, 2018 · Leave a Comment

My, my, how time flies…and seems to stand still at the same time. David Byrne said it like this, “Same as it ever was…” And so it is, the struggle to get on with it – as if I had control over the timing of things. I want… What does it matter how I end this […]

Full Spectrum of Love

January 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment

“Sunset is still my favorite color. Rainbow is second.” Mattie Stepanek What is clouding my awareness of the full spectrum of Love? How do I greet the EVERYTHING and allow this Landscape of Love to unfold more fully? My talisman, my incantation, my newest prayer is “Yes, and…” Yes, I miss my loving and departed […]

Living in Liminality

May 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Wondering if just plain living day-to-day is it’s own ritual? And wondering when the ritual day-to-day is interrupted why we panic and how do we cope? And mostly wondering why this type of disruption is not more coveted? I just sold my home and moved in with a friend for a while. My friend has […]

Loss of Illusions

May 19, 2017 · Leave a Comment

“There is a diamond lying on the road; the arrow is released from the bow. Now the awareness is not within you, now the awareness moves and, reaching the diamond, pierces its heart. Now your awareness is with the diamond and no longer within you. Now the awareness is somewhere else. So all the arrows […]

Spiritual Partnership

April 17, 2017 · Leave a Comment

“Spiritual partnerships are the most fulfilling, substantive, and deep relationships possible. They are relationships between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. … No matter who the spiritual partner or spiritual partners are, the spiritual partnership operates the same way.” ~Gary Zukav I have been waiting for directions for my new life. Something less complex than those you get with birth control pills. […]

Envision Forward

January 17, 2017 · Leave a Comment

“There is a way of breathing that’s a shame and a suffocation and there’s another way of breathing, a love breath that lets you open to the infinite.” ~Rumi. I spent the day at a Vision Board Workshop. This is a yearly ritual which surprisingly has become a touchstone. Each year we choose a word to act like […]

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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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