finding balance in life and growth

The Balance of Peace and Growth

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Although much of my life revolves around a daily routine of work, like all of us, I find myself bombarded with sensations and images, thoughts and feelings – and often caught between delight and distress. One moment I find myself in a clear…
My Blessings for the New Year

My Blessing For The New Year

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A few weeks ago, someone asked me, ‘what is your perfect life?’  The idea being that if I could name it, I could pray for it and perhaps manifest it. It seemed a simple enough question. My immediate answer was that the earth and its various…
ron wing

A Magnificent Life

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Last week my husband and I bought a beautiful piece of art.  We had gone to visit an old friend of my father’s – an artist - Ron Wing.  He is 84, had a heart attack several months ago and has congestive heart failure.  He was my father’s…
Seeing light after darkness

Showing Our Brokenness

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On the deck, there are a small group of sparrows eating the birdseed that has scattered everywhere from the feeder above.  It is a fairly peaceful day after a weeklong visit from relatives. The sun is shining.  The ocean is blue.  This moment…
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The Choice

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I’ve been avoiding writing this piece.  Why?  Because I have a lot of thoughts and a lot of feelings that I haven’t been ready to delve into. There is a pair of mallard ducks that come and hang out in our pool for a few months every…
Sunset depicting overwhelm

Overwhelm

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Maybe you could call it a creative block, but what it really feels like is that I'm caught between these different and enormous landscapes, like being in the middle of moving worlds and everything is changing and I don't know yet where I am…
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What I wish for Jyoti Singh Pandey

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Yesterday I first learned her name and saw her picture.  She was smiling with warm brown eyes and long dark hair.  She looked petite, young and sweet.  I was glad to learn her name. I was glad to see her picture.  I was glad to get to know…
Perspective needed for emotional detoxification

Emotional Detoxification

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I read the an article about health recently and was struck by this paragraph: We are in a constant exchange with our environment, which is governed by the laws of osmosis. If mercury is in the fish we eat, over time we have mercury in our…
reaching for the sun

We Are Big Beings

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Last Thursday I went to my Dr’s again.  I still haven’t kicked whatever is making me ill. While in the Dr’s office, a man was there getting vitamin C intravenously.  He had cancer.  I told him that I ‘wanted to kill’ whatever was…