Any national election has the potential to redefine how a country understands its identity. So it’s no surprise that the recent presidential election in the U.S. has reverberated so deeply in the core of our fears and vulnerabilities. Since the elections this week, many people are stunned, angry, grieving and fearful about the future. What […]
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I have always been drawn to questions about balance. Perhaps it’s the Libra in me. Or maybe it’s just the way all beings require a point of balance to stay connected to what we need – light, water, both roots and room to grow, ballast in a storm. In the electoral storms of the past […]
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The signs of our nation’s ill health are mounting in the United States right now. Our political discourse seems to be on a freefall to all-time lows, and the nation has been poignantly diagnosed as suffering from any number of grave maladies including: a failure of the heart and “serious sceptic systemic racism;” and a malignant […]
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. ~ […]
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I once had a dream about words growing on bushes, blossoms free for the picking that I was gathering in a basket. Since then, I have come to believe that words are more like heavy ripe fruit or, possibly, like stones. They have heft. They weigh down the basket quickly when collected. One needs to […]
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The flags in the United States are flying at half-mast again. We are in heartbreaking times. Returning home from a tearful vigil in St. Paul for Philando Castile the other night, I pulled out an old tattered collection of sermons by Martin Luther King, Jr. and read until my eyes were as heavy as my heart. […]
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More than one year out from my cancer diagnosis and surgeries, I am celebrating each day that I am still cancer-free. And I am living differently than I was a year and a half ago, not only with more gratitude each day but also with more sleep. It turns out, as I’ve discovered in dramatically cutting […]
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