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How Open, How Big Our Hearts
I’ve been thinking about sadness these past weeks, because goodness knows, there sure is a lot going on in this precious world right now worthy of our sadness and tears. Maybe that’s the way it’s...
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The Heart’s Twin Sisters
My final summer reading was Buddha’s Daughters, a collection of teachings from women who are shaping Buddhism in the west. (In sweet synchronicity, I see the publication date is my birthday!) I didn’t...
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Consciously Attending to My New Year
It’s been a long time since I last wrote here. I’d started a piece on my heart’s response to being in Turkey, how I didn’t really let myself know fully “Why Turkey?” until a kind and gentle Muslim...
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Winter’s Pause
January takes her parting bow today. After a respite that melted most of the snow and foolishly tempted both plant and birds into thinking spring was soon to be, I awoke to a once again cold, white...
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Threads
Earlier today, I received my daily dose of good medicine: poems and photos, courtesy of Joe Riley and his Panhala site. Today’s gift a fond favourite by William Stafford. The Way It Is There’s a...
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Three at Play
It’s said there’s something auspicious about things happening in threes. A week ago, that was the case when I tuned in The Road Home as I turned in for the night. As luck would have it, I heard Bob,...
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Fasting From Facebook – My Lenten Ritual
“The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within oneself.” John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes (4) Today is Ash Wednesday signifying within the...
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Tonglen for a Young Robin
Sitting in my sanctuary on a Saturday morning. Journal open. Pen in hand to capture elusive night messages. Dream snippets. Coffee sips. Sudden thud on the floor to ceiling, wall-wide window....
View ArticleOne From the Little Red Jot Book
Sunday, September 3, 2017: a morning walk on the lands of Finca Buenvino, Spain The first apple, Eve’s temptation, this golden green orb of bliss. Quince it’s called today, and many speculate this was...
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Seven star sisters, each a Venus shining in the eastern morning sky. Skin glows like moonbeams in the cloistered light of the hammam Soft flesh – thighs, breasts and bellies Hair loosened, free...
View ArticleStill True a Year Later
Discovered this in my draft file from last summer. Remarkable how the circumstances are still true a year later. Continue reading →
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