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Freedom
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl I find myself with the need to create space for things. And they’re good things. Like my life. Life events, experiences and adventures. It’s been…
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Spring
I grew up in a very restrictive, fundamentalist Christian household. Many Holidays celebrated, including St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Palm Sunday revolved around different traditions in our household. This time of year does bring fond memories back and also unpleasant ones. Even as a child, I questioned a lot of what we did and what we…
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What can I contribute?
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson There is much going on in the world today. It can be overwhelming sometimes the amount of tragedy and injustice that people are experiencing. It can seem at times that there’s a bad side and that the…
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Fires
I’m not sure how to start this one. I have been on my spiritual enlightenment quest for a really long time. Looking here and there. Finding this and that. Practicing my yoga on and off the mat. And I have been guilty of becoming very preachy in my “enlightened positive thinking.” What I mean by…
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Poetry
Many times in a yoga class I have either read poetry or quotes or had poetry read to me. I went on Friday to an amazing slam poet Buddy Wakefield whose work really touches my soul. The past few days, that experience included, has really brought me into a new frame of consciousness. I’m shifting paradigms…
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Ideas for Peacemaking – as taken from the Peace Alliance Newsletter
Three Suggestions for Peacemaking in Your Own Life If you have any internal judgements of anybody, politically or in your life, notice any judgments of “wrong or bad.” Then connect, “what are the deeper needs of mine behind those judgements?” When you have disagreement with what others are saying (with politicians and media pundits, for…
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Out with the old – in with the new?
One Love Newsletter 2011As I reflect back on the past year there are more than a few things I’ve learned: 1. I can do a lot.2. I get burned out doing a lot.3. I don’t have to do everything.4. Sometimes opportunities arise and I don’t necessarily have to take them.5. I would rather have peace…
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Christmas thoughts
A complicated time of year. I went into a store yesterday and became very, very, present. I made my way slowly, patiently and carefully through a crowded parking lot and a crowded store. I watched as people often mindlessly rushed through, if you weren’t watching where they were going, they were going to run into…
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Moon Days – A Yoga Holiday
In my own practice or my own experience of life, I’ve noticed, perhaps a coincidence or not, that when the moon is full things happen. When I worked as a waitress on the Full Moon, we would know that there would be unusual circumstances and unusual people. People would come in and we’d be quite…
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The big unknown
I had a friend pass recently, unexpectedly to everyone except for him. In the days preceding his death, he passed along a box to a neighbor saying if he didn’t make it back give it to his family. When friends went out to his car to get it in the parking lot, all of his…
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