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Making Use of Randomness

May 16, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“What you seek is seeking you.” ~rumi When I became aware of Leonard Mlodinow’s book The Fragility of Grand Discoveries, which makes the case for randomness’ role in science, it started me thinking. Books will do that! I wondered about making use of randomness in this teeny-tiny-little experiment called my life and what discoveries might […]

The Happiest Place on Earth – Selling Mindfulness

April 22, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“Nothing could be finer than meditating in Carolina…” Wouldn’t it be great if meditation was as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet? I wonder what kind of world we could create if meditation was demystified, re imagined or sold en mass like cereal or detergent? Is it just me or are we […]

Renewed Willingness

March 20, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“Freedom is available at anytime to anyone – and so is captivity.”  ~martha beck Renewing my heart’s willingness to Love is my next task at hand. Here are some of my limiting beliefs… How do I fathom such a thing? Where does one heart end and another leave off? What kind of trial must I go through before […]

A Daily Practice

January 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment

“Fish live in streams Birds nest in trees Human beings dwell In warm hearts.” ~Japanese folk Zen saying Keeping my heart open is the plan for the day. It is the plan for everyday. It is a mantra, a philosophy, a way of life. Keeping my heart open allows all my periodic fears to be […]

Getting Back to My Life

December 1, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“A low point in life is sometimes a turning point. but you have to turn”  ~ thomas moore, author of Care of the Soul  In a difficult moment I found myself saying aloud, “I can’t wait to get back to my life!” And seconds later I recognized that this moment, every part and parcel of […]

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 […]

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 […]

So Many Passions

August 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

What does Passion mean to you? For the first half of my life I thought Passion was that feeling derived from sex and love. BTW this is also the time I thought sex & love were the same thing.  Passion was that fleeting thing that waxed and waned according to life’s circumstance. It conjured up images […]

Transported by Joy

March 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

The sun is shining and the cool winds of a burgeoning spring are blowing thru my hair. I am driving home after a great day of doing what I love. I am joy.  Time is stopped as a wonderful feeling surges from within. Then I see the break lights. But there is no thing that can come between me […]

Beginning Anew…Again

March 3, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj “A time comes in your life when you finally get it…when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out…enough! Enough fighting and crying and blaming and […]

Darkness, Play, Joy

February 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“What if this is what it looks like while my dream of the end of Apartheid is happening?  What if my being in this very situation is… part of… my overcoming?”~Nelson Mandela about his imprisonment“Just how do we deal with agitations of the dark? How do we make our way through the tangle of being […]

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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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