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May 5, 20213 min read
Stories in Miniature: Tiny Toolkit of Quotations #2
I like quotations--they can be a bit like tiny stories, complete with a conflict or problem and some sort of resolution. And they're short!
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
Healing into the New Normal: Gentle Re-Entry as the Pandemic Begins (we hope) to Ease
When astronauts go through re-entry, they may be coming back home to some semblance of "normal" but no one expects re-entry to be simple.
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Mar 10, 20214 min read
A Strange Mirror
This strange mirror, this odd form of grace, though uncomfortable, has on occasion helped me see myself a lot more clearly.
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Feb 17, 20213 min read
Mindfulness and the Prodigal Yo-yo
I focus on my breath. I get distracted. Oops. Okay. And again. So many times that I feel like one of those toys on a string...
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Feb 3, 20213 min read
In Falling and In Rising
Something so beautiful & unusual that it follows you around for days, rising again & again from hidden stairways of your heart...
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Jan 27, 20213 min read
Being. Breathing. Being Breathed.
An absurd fantasy--I mentally roll my eyes when I read it. Yet when I decided to write about mindfulness this week that essay came to mind.
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Jan 20, 20214 min read
Balance, Balance, Balance...THUD!
When I looked at that piece of paper the next morning I saw the following: true gifts, humility, self-confidence, grandiosity. Ohhhh...
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Jan 6, 20215 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: A Short Cat-alogue of Playful Poems
I love to play with words & to read others who do that well. Here are three lighthearted--and cat-intense--poems. For fun!
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Dec 16, 20202 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: Cold and Starlight Turn to Gold
It is early morning winter,
cold and starlight turn to gold. Slowly I awake to find you standing where I saw you last...
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Nov 18, 20204 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: Either/Or? Both/And?
Anti-Anxiety Tool of the Week "I am alright right now." In this present moment, just as you are right now, are you okay? Reading this...
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Oct 28, 20204 min read
Small Seeds: Experimenting with Prayer and Hope
Why not participate in the Good Big Thing and then reach out from those places to join with those are living out grace?
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Oct 21, 20204 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: It's Amazing How Much How Little Will Do
Sometimes a tiny shift can solve a big problem...
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Oct 14, 20203 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: A Lighthearted Story...in Fifteen (Short) Stanzas
And now for something completely different...a children's story, in verse, about a young girl and her great-grandmother. Just for fun.
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Oct 7, 20203 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: Breathe in Beauty
Beauty is all around me--it hasn't gone away. The trees, the sky, a bird, an odd little insect. How to breathe in beauty & be in the world?
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Sep 9, 20204 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: A Tiny Toolkit of Quotations
Quotations, in a sense, are stories in miniature. Here are a few of my current favorites.
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Aug 26, 20203 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: Imperfectly
Forgiving ourselves, we learn to forgive others. Allowing our own foibles we are, hopefully, more able to accept imperfection in others.
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Jul 29, 20203 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: God's Heartbeat?
Today in my quiet time I found myself wondering about God's heartbeat. Maybe it was my breathing that started this line of thought...
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Jul 8, 20201 min read
Sitting still and allowing love
Today I want to share two poems that continue to touch me. Perhaps you can rest in the tenderness and freedom they offer?
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May 27, 20203 min read
Small Seeds of Hope: Take a Nap
"You should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything..."
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May 13, 20204 min read
Anti-Covidanxiety Toolkit #9
We all need support to be brave, less anxious, to lean a little bit more into love. So I continue to share these little pieces of hope...
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