A Walk In The Park
/A flower photo gallery from Lithia Park in Oregon.
Read MoreI have a habit of keeping a very long to-do list and many items carry over from day to day. This can easily lead to judging myself as lazy. I often come to the end of a day and wonder what I accomplished. This is the plight of work on the mental and emotional plane, where results are often not as apparent as they are with physical labor. I work in a sheltered enclavve, in my little home office, hammering away at....what? This raises the question: Does my to-do list leadto what I love?
Read MoreThis being human is an amazing and magical event. We really have no idea where we came from and most of us have few, if any, memories of our infancy and early childhood. And yet, a vast amount of learning happens during this period, including the basic skills of walking and talking. These skills serve as the foundation for how we move through the world and what we make of it. We form ideas about life, about ourselves, and about others and we assume or develop beliefs about what is possible, what is permissible, and what is appropriate in life and for us. This set of ideas serves as our description or the “map” that we use to navigate through life. Wording the world allows you to create a map that is both accurate and beautiful!
Read MoreScience is now pretty clear that we do not operate on the world directly, at least not consciously. We live in a world of our own making by constructing the view we have of life, the world, and what is in it. Being present is a discipline, a practice, and it takes effort to learn how to maintain presence in the world. Here's a simple technique to be more present in life.
Read MoreToday is the spring equinox, the turning of winter into spring. Spring is the season of hope, the season when seeds give birth to buds and buds become blossoms. To the soul, it is the season for planting the seeds of our future vision and to nurturing them until they burst into being. This is a time to pray for the conditions to ripen our effort into abundance! Are you planting and nurturing the seeds of your future vision? How so?
Read MoreWord the World in a way that brings you to life and life to you!
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In our everyday encounters with others, whether strangers, acquaintances, friends, or family, we carry on two conversations: one is the everyday talk at the surface; the other is the a deeper sould-to-soul conversation. What mght we besaying to each other onthat deeper level?
I wrote the poem A Day Like Any Other while sitting on my patio in the early monring, listening to the birds. To me they seem to sing with such joy and wonder, as if to say “This is another day, another day like no other.”
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The pandemic has forced many of us to short our attention away from the outer world and thrust into our own inner world. The concepts of achievement and success that drive us in the outer world do not apply in the inner world. This leaves many of us lost, confused, and frightened. Now the we are reduced to the essentials, we have a chance to re-imagine our relationship with ourselves, with life, and therefore, with the world. In other words, it has stripped away some of what came between us and life. What brings you closer to life?
For me, Easter is not a question of faith. It is the acknowledgment of the awakened spirit, a kind of rising up to animate, or re-animate, the inert body, or to restore spirit to the inertia of one's life. And in this time of isolation, sheltered in our homes, we have a chance to re-animate our ives and the world in which we live. What new spirit do you wish to bring to life?
The pandemic calls us to turn inward, to look inside ourselves, to return to the heart and ask ourselves: what is essential in our lives? What do you think the virus is calling you to do?