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How shall my garden grow?
Day 3 If my body doesn’t need food right now, what is it that wants to be filled? What’s it for? What’s the meaning of it? What brought me here? What’s in this for me? What is the ideal that...
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Dance
Day 6 of Continuing Recovery Thank you, G-d, there is dance. And it is available to everyone. Even if all I can do is notice the movement of energy inside me, dance is there. In 2007 was...
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What is it like… ?
Day 20 of Continuing Recovery From “The Poetics of Coaching: Unveiling the Mystery of the Human as a Work of Art” – the workshop I took yesterday, by Sarita Chawla of New Ventures West… What is it...
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La Vie en Rose
Day 37 of continuing recovery Dear Friends, Friday evening I danced the 5 Rhythms for two and a half hours. Towards the end of the evening I noticed that I had been continually dancing the...
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Our shared poverty
Day 66 of continuing recovery This morning I took a meandering path through the internet from one beautiful gate to the next. My unexpected destination was a quote from the Dutch-born spiritual...
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Happiness
Good Day Dear Friends! I am feeling very well. So far, it’s just one of those unpredictably happy days on the path of life. This morning I went to a 12-step meeting for food addicts. Every share was...
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Taking refuge
Susan Piver’s Open Heart Project (OHP) is powerful sustenance for my daily Quiet Time. It was introduced to me by a July 2012 blog post from Seth Godin. I highly recommend OHP. It provides a...
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Mom’s poem
The UPS Man by Myra Tate Perhaps the UPS man is my Higher Power. He came early to my door and gently knocked. He said He was here to pick up the package that was time-sensitive. I asked Him to come in...
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Sleep apnea
Miranda-the-labradoodle is fine! I have sleep apnea! I’m not thrilled about it, but I’m grateful to know about the problem and to be able to address it. For some months Gregory was expressing a...
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Intuition and Insight
I’ve felt the chill this winter — shoulders up around my ears, back rounding, ribs binding, heart contracting, shallow breathing, eyes squinting, jaw tightening, steps shortening, fear of falling....
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Dare
This is from my dear friend Elayne. She fosters Dare at Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Maryland. This morning I stood in the upper pasture. Dare and York were together one field away. The wind was...
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Have no fear…
Yesterday I attended our Friends Meeting for Worship Christmas Pageant. Every year it makes me cry. The young First Day children sit on the facing bench in their homemade costumes, and raise their...
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A Posture of Learning
It’s been 18 months since my last post — a challenging time that has included the “fading away” (as she called it) of our beloved mama Myra. She was a beautiful presence to the very end —...
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The Ineffable
Names for the Ineffable… some from me and many found in Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness by Nan C. Merrill. Adonai All All Forgiving One Allah Almighty One Avalokiteśvara Awakened...
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