Thanksgiving
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Happy Thanksgiving! Today, I give thanks to my family and my friends, to my colleagues and my students, and to all those who have touched my life and whose life I touch.
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Wording The World
This Is The Day
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I practice setting my intent for the day in writing each morning. I wrote this simple poem, This Is The Day, as my Daily Intent for Sunday, November 13, 2016. Given what you know is on your calendar, what kind of day would you like today? How would you like to be, think, feel at the end of this day?
Read MoreUndertow
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What is your relationship to play? How has it changed since childhood? This tide pool incident happened as a teenager on a Sunday beach trip with friends when we stayed out on the rocks too long. The tide seemed to rush in and we had to fight the pull of the ocean on our way back to the shore. Something in my relationship to play changed that day...
Read MorePrayer For The Fallen
/I was not raised in any religion. I never received instructions for prayer. I have developed my own prayer practice and sometimes convert them into poems as I did with this one. Do you pray? If so, how do you pray? What makes prayer different than other forms of self-talk?
Read MoreSorrow & Joy: A Poem In Two Moods
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The same words can have a vastly different feel and impact depending on the label attached and the way they are spoken or the mood within which they are expressed. How does it affect you to hear the same poem titled and read with a different emotional tone: one with Sorrow and the other with Joy?
Read MoreBehold!
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"I went walking and found hearts everywhere." Cordiform is the name given to heart-shaped leaves. There are a lot of them along the walking path near the canal outside of my condo. We have the great privilege of awareness. We are witnesses to the world, to each other, and to life. What in the world takes your attention? How do you carry the slice of the world to which you attend?
Read MoreFaith That Never Wavers
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Keeping balance in a world of distractions requires ongoing practice. In what do you place your faith when taking risks or moving forward in life? In what do you have a faith that never wavers?
Read MoreI Cannot Help But Love
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I took a side trip on my way to Salem, Oregon recently and drove the rim of Crater Lake on September 16, 2016. I caught it on a beautiful day, the lake surface reflecting the blue sky like a mirror. I wrote this piece while on thedrive feeling blessed by the beauty I witnessed and happy to have taken the detour!
Read MoreWhimsy To Follow
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Plans are useful and necessary to help us to achieve goals and better our lives. Every once in a while, I feel the tug of whimsy wanting me to abandon my plans and run off on a little adventure. Whether or not I follow its lead, I am always tickled by the feeling. And when I do embrace whimsy, I am almost always rewarded with some little treasure in the moment.
Read MoreVows To Life
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We are married to life. Our relationship to life may be the most intimate of all our relationships, more intimate even than with our parents, our family, our life partner, or our children. We are always in a context, always contained by life, always held in its arms. LIfe made its vow to you and will be with you until death do you part. The question is: What vow(s) would you make to life if you enter into this marriage consciously?
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