Summer has ended. Fall has just begun. Hurdling toward shortening daylight and the contraction of things today I am reminiscing about contemplation. NOW is a good time to plant. Hibernating, then germinating in the darkness of uncertainty with time and patience thoughts break open up through thawing grounds. Once their time has come there will […]
BLOG 2 (PERSONAL)
Essentially Especially You
“You are a unique being. It is not in your doing, it is in your being that matters. This is where the magic happens. Your doing is just the last step in the distillation of you.” I was fortunate enough to visit a lavender distillery this summer in France. There I saw how fields of […]
Without Boundaries
“One must learn the patience of right timing but that patience itself is an active participation in the rhythm and balance of the Divine stream of life.” ~david spangler How am I without boundaries? Does South mean sweet tea and biscuits and North mean bagels and coffee? I have come to see that geography has less […]
Is NOW enough?
“Could there be a preciousness and value to existence stemming from the very fact of its temporary duration?” ~alan lighman What if that was all there is? What if it ended there? Would that be enough? It was perfect. The anticipation and then the meeting up a second time. All the stories, the descriptions, the […]
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and 3 Guys Named John
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” ~john muir Have you ever arrived at a point in your life – when you mandated a change must be made? This is a reminder that it is in the everyday ordinary in which we live. And […]
Create From Inside Out
“Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.” ~martha beck How about them apples? You can say anything you like. You can think all day on a subject. And you can feel as happy or as sad as you like. But it is the actual manifestation of what is in front of you […]
Attachment
“Susnset in a Glass” Photo by Alice Reid 2015 “You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” ~pema chodron Letting go of attachment is enlarging my experience of love. Unconfined Love can be totally free to embrace without fear of losing anything or anyone. It can just be love. That is a good […]
Healing Is Available Right Now!
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” ~rumi I worked really hard on becoming numb in all the acceptable ways. I turned on the television and watched familiar shows until they just became color and noise. I ate and ate and ate until there was no more empty room left on the […]
Self-Love is the Bread of Life
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in the grass the world is too full to talk about” ~rumi I am getting used to taking care of myself again. I did it before I was married. A burst of tears erupts […]
Giving In
Seems who I thought I was got in the way of who I am… Being human – the spiral seeks me out. They say grief is an ever changing spiral on which we travel. And at certain points you can just expect your feelings of grief to be heightened. So you should prepare for them. […]
Beginner’s Mind
“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.”“And he has Brain.”“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.” There was a long silence. “I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.” ~a. a. milne, winnie-the-pooh For a while now I had thought I knew enough to be a teacher. But now I realize […]
Just Fifty Feet Away
Ultima forsan. It’s later than you think; literally, ‘Perhaps the last’. These words are inscribed on some clocks to indicate that the moment of death; indeed, the moment of eternal judgment, may be at hand. The wise person treats every hour as though it were his/her last.“We are just fifty feet away from the gate,”our […]