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 […]
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Yearning: Other Words Other Ways
We all yearn for something. Christine Valters Painter stirs my yearning to be one with my soul’s heart. I say yes and yes and yes to living from the inside out!“This is not a poem but a rain-soaked day keeping me insidewith you and you loving me like a storm. This is not a poem but […]
Thinking About Contemplation
I am struck by the difference in the participants when one contemplates verses when one meditates. It seems to me meditation requires joyous wide and vast emptiness and contemplation joyously lets in all comers. Both allow for emergence of higher understanding. Both require an acknowledgement of an inner life and willingness to see. I am […]